Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences
Scott Granneman, 2005-01-19

The law of unintended consequences shows us how many innocent innovations like email, anti-virus and DRM can become something far worse than the inventors had ever imagined.

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-19
Russell

"Social scientists have noticed an interesting pattern in human behavior over the years: it seems that the more safe and secure people feel, the more likely they are to engage in risky behavior." Another blinding flash of the bleeding obvious for Social Science!...

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-20
Tomski

"Microsoft has touted its Windows Media Player (or WMP) as an industy- and DRM-friendly app that supports so-called "protected" media files."

That's true. DRM has never been implemented as anything but a half-assed way to help people protect their media. We should be used to MS making serious mis...

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thank you 2005-01-21
Jakub Safar

This is one of the best articles on security I read in a long time. I call it ,,best`` since I can send a link to many people and they do not have to be rocket scientists to understand it. Bravo!...

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-21
Anonymous

Instead of the usual "slap in the wrist" for crackers and malware distributors etc. there should be SERIOUS consequences that are so painful that it would be a more effective deterrent. For instance- public, televised canings followed by 20-30 years in the slammer. Sadly, our justice system continue...

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-23
Anonymous

Well Said.....

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-24
Volker

Excellent article....

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-25
Saar Drimer (1 replies)

There's a whole book on the topic:
"Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences." by Edward Tenner.
highly recommended (it's a little old, 1995 I think, but very applicable.)
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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-27
Anonymous

Good book, worth reading....

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-25
Anonymous

I had a couple of comments regarding your article. For the most part I enjoyed your article but I disagree with your analysis of the car alarms in Russia. I wouldn't say that installing car alarms made things easier for car thiefs. Having to kill someone to steal a car isn't making things easier its...

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-31
grg

i wonder how did that PC performed with 1095 pieces of spyware installed?...

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Unintended Consequences 2005-01-31
Anonymous

Interesting.

But why is it that when I click on the authors' name above to read more of what he might have out there, a yahoo screen pops up asking for my passowrd????...

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