Re: The Talk: ssh - are you nuts!?!

[opentrax@email.com]

On  5 Jan, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 04:22:13AM -0800, opentrax@email.com wrote:
>> Hmm... That is an interesting point.
>> If I can't make heads or tails of this, how
>> can any reasonable persom make sense of it?
>> Could it be that I am insane?
>> Perhaps a new note will help you decide.
> 
> Perhaps you have not yet learned in life that some things are "easy"
> and other things are "hard". Just by demanding that people make things
> easy to understand, you will not yourself acquire all the knowledge
> necessary to understand the subject.
> 
> If ssh were in the "easy" category, then you wouldn't be talking about
> it, so ipso facto it is "hard" and, no, we cannot expect a
> "reasonable" person to understand it. The persone who understands it
> will have more detailed knowledge of the subject than a "reasonable"
> person.
> 
> On the question of insanity, I am not qualified to comment.
> Ego-manical maybe, but then again that may just be my opinion.
> 
I thank you for your civil comments. 

If for arguments sake I said I approved of SSH, I would
still voice my opinion on defects. Defects not nessecarily
technical or argumentative. In this, I might hope to 
assist those who's underlying goal is to have better 
Internet security.