Nope, it's not the bad guys hurting us twice, it's the inventors who never learn. They're the danger. Look at the Monad exposure - Microsoft knew in 1995 that there was a huge potential exposure in adding scripting capabilities to applications (concept macro virus). However, they didn't THINK and didn't REMEMBER what their own experience taught them, and repeated the mistake with monad.

Ditto with wifi - bluetooth - rfid. People simply don't think beyond what THEY want to do with the technology. The inventors cost us.

In any part of the world, if you want something you have to pay to keep it. Your health? Go to the doctor. Your house? Pay a lawyer for a valid contract, pay for title insurance, pay your taxes that goes to keeping your kids educated and keeping cops around to protect your stuff. We always have to pay.

Another way to look at it, we always have to pay twice. For everything. The fact that this is true in the computer world isn't a mind-bender that everyone misses, it's a painfully obvious fact of life that is assumed.


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