[H-GEN] Installing IRIX - comment on security

[Tony Bilbrough]

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> Tony Bilbrough said:
>
> > If you want it NOW, no worries. You can pick it up from home. I will
> > leave it in the garage, on the table next to the freezer if I am out.
>
> [snip contact details]

and Patrick Nichols wrote:

> Now, this is possibly just me, but I think not.  Leaving your contact
> details and words to the effect that computer equipment will be available
> in an insecure location is very foolhardy on a public mailing list.
>
> If I were a criminal, I would now have a phone number

<snipe>?

And Tony B replied:
Well Patrick,
only a couple of points [insert symbol for a wry smile here]
[1] My Phone number and Address are freely available from the Telstra phone
book [updated annually]. You really don't need to become a criminal to read
it.
And
[2] If a bloke was hungry enough to make off with a bit of meat from the
freezer, then I guess that his/her needs are a lot greater than mine, Hmmm?

Believing something bad might happen, one day, is really a bit of a waste of
time
- Most sentients are well intentioned
- Most of the time

Errr, actually, Harry got it right. Thanks mate.
Perhaps you too, Patrick, actually meant to spare me humiliation and
embarrassment, by writing to me privately, as I should have?

I just refuse to believe, as others may, that you did a bit of 'grandstanding'
among your peers, with your obviously superior fore knowledge of human
behaviour in today's society - Hypothetically.

cheers
Tony B
ps damm, I've done it again - haven't I?
This note went to general lists, instead of just You and Harry!
Oh, I am sorry.

> --

I am 60 and civilised
..............now
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