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Programming race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
– Rich Cook
I’ve lost my faith in education. It never helps, people will never learn… They will click on everything (…) We really have to take security to a higher level, and take the responsibility away from the users… (People) have to be automatically secured by someone else(.)
– Mikko Hypponen commenting on MyDoom outbreak

…some scary quotes. We, the supporter of technologies can’t say “It’s not our fault that your computer got infected. It’s your own stupidity’s fault.”
I also think of these in the context of fansubbing too. The most common questions that fansubbing team get is “I can’t play your video properly!” Well, the latter quote is telling me that we can no longer say “It plays fine on our computer. The file conforms to the MPEG-4 standard just fine.” It’s now our responsibility to come up with a final product that works on anyone’s computer, no matter how messed up the users’ systems are? But as I read in Doom9 forum, it’s not a very easy task… The battle between the creator and the end user… the battle between the techies and the commoners… they never end…

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