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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-12-26 under

"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" -- Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's global digital business division, 2005-11-04, regarding the flap over dangerous DRM software on Sony music CDs that auto-installed on Windows computers. ( text quote in The Register, audio from NPR; note that various things have happened in this story since the time I added it to the QotD queue.)

[Security? Who needs that? As long as you don't know about it you're fine, apparently.]

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posted by [identity profile] bikerwalla.livejournal.com at 10:27am on 2005-12-26
If you knew what's GOOD for you, you peons wouldn't ask so many damned QUESTIONS.
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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 02:39pm on 2005-12-26
You must remember that all computer users are actually cartoon characters; if they don't realize what's happening to them, then they're immune to any ill-effects.
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*eye-roll*

posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 11:34pm on 2005-12-26
Most people don't know what a whole LOT of things are.
20 years ago, no one knew what retro-virii were. Ignorance = safety? What is this, the 14th century?
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