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Re: the anvil problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tpurdy@newsguy.com)
Fri May 31 11:41:07 2002
From: tpurdy@newsguy.com
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:39:59 -0600
Reply-To: tpurdy@newsguy.com
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.4.1022731325.jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
On Thu, 30 May 2002 0:02:05 EDT, Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>
wrote:
... snipt ...
>Funny during the days after 9/11 I was using donated computers to
>build a missing persons database in downtown manhattan. We were
>scraping together anything would could get our hands on. Microsoft's
>NY office donated several copies of Office XP. The problem was that
>during the crisis there was no method by which the copies could be
>registered. Therefore, after a small number of executions the
>software came to a dead halt. Given the time pressures we were forced
>to abandon the work that was done in Office XP. I grabbed an old copy
>of Office 97 and used that instead since it didn't have the limits.
Say 3/4ths of the world office use Microsoft software of one variety or
another and they all need regular reloading for proper operation.
Say a large aircraft full of fuel torches the place, some fanatical
bunch of wackos nuke the place, or maybe, some demented engineering
student lobs a home-made EMP device onto the lawn?
What's the world gonna do when the master licensing borg croaks and
nobody can (re)license their office equipment warez?
Is this disaster recovery a Microsoft issue or a US Government national
security issue?
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