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To: tech101 who wrote (10899)	8/3/2005 4:15:18 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

I don't want to make light of what you're saying, tech, but it occurs to me that the PSTN sailed along for over a hundred years without the magnitude of security breaches, even if measured per capita, that we see today on the Internet. Then again, it wasn't until the mid-Nineties that most folks' personal and business information finally became digitized and accessible via electronic means, sans imaging systems using OCR. Obviously, intruders have always had it within their repertoires to penetrate communications lines and data storage facilities either physically (wiretaps and radio wave collection when not an insider picking up an extension) or by some virtual method through the use of access codes. But you'd seldom see this occurring from 12,000 miles away in the past, or with the ability to target victims with the specificity that we see occurring today on the Internet. Moving on to the Nineties and beyond, narrowband made it almost essential that end points maintain their own data stores on hard drives of ever increasing size, or on system drives that were close to the user for direct attachment. Does broadband do anything today to help ameliorate this vulnerability? While I'm at it, I might as well also throw this out onto the table and ask: Do the makers of Dristan really want to see a permanent cure for the sniffles? I get this sense that if I keep talking to myself about this subject long enough I'm going to come to the same conclusions that you did. But I'll make sure that air bags and a parachute are installed in my vehicles, for the reasons you cited :) FAC