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These days?

Intel, 1999: “The actual user of the PC — someone who can do anything they want — is the enemy.”

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-biggest-security-threat-yo...



For some reason, I didn't really get your comment, and here is the quote from the article you linked that fixed it:

> Aucsmith said that more and more, software companies and content creators are targeting users as a major threat to security. The reason? With a few keystrokes, users could freely distribute "bits that have value," said Aucsmith -- copying such content as software, DVD video and other valuable data.

Ugh.

And that's not security. Nobody is compromised when someone copies those bits.




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