If I get burgled, because I've never bothered learning how to lock my house, would my insurance company accept that it's not my fault, because I didn't burgle myself? Of course not, they wouldn't give me a penny because I didn't take the obvious precautionary measures.
That's a good comparison. Of course you have to protect your house. Likewise, I didn't say you should leave your computer unprotected because you can't sue a hacker who didn't leave his name tag. What I did say is that La Grande can take over the purpose of firewalls and virus protection, and it might be virtually unbreakable. You nor me knows how good or bad it can do these tasks, but in my opinion we should give it a fair chance. The analogon of the burgled house is that you throw away your motion detection alarm and just get titanium doors (and windows, pun unintened) with locks that automatically do a retinal scan. In the computer world, this titanium door could be much cheaper than the motion detection alarm, and it's easier to use (no alarm when your cat goes downstairs or when you forget to activate/deactivate it in the evening/morning). All you have to trust is that the lock maker doesn't send your retinal scan data around. But just like with La Grande, any kind of this abuse would be detectable, and you -can- sue that company because you know its name. If the company violates the trust of its clients, it will go under.
If you buy a sailing boat, and then end up completely lost in the middle of nowhere because you didn't learn how to use it, is that someone elses fault?
I don't think this is a good comparison. There simply is no second person here trying to do you wrong.
If people don't bother learning how to use their new 'Interweb Box' properly, including regularly updating security & AV software, then they shouldn't act suprised when someone tries to break in. It would be nice to live in a world where that was not the case, but sadly we do.
Yes, sadly we do. But sadly people also don't seem to realize that you can update your security as much as you like, there will always be leaks in your OS that allow people to get in. Also, breaking in to a computer is less of a risk for the hacker than it is for a burglar since there are nearly no 'cops' on the internet and he can get away instantly and anonymously is anything goes wrong. La Grande could be used to detect OS leaks, and to identify everyone attempting to access your coumputer.
I know you'd say - "but la Grande means they won't have to!".. But if people have to learn all this stuff, then they'd pick up a lot of other information about their computer, and learn how to maintain it better in other areas too.
Well, with La Grande, 'computer specialists' could focus on learning much more important things to "maintain it better in other areas too". Besides, La Grande itself is just a bunch of transistors. Experts still need to have in-depth knowledge of how the OS and applications use it. But the way things are now, too much time has to be spend to keep hackers and viruses away, because they will keep coming back and even an amateur programmer can write an 'I Love You' virus.
But real progress won't even be possible if people are paranoid about new security possibilities. And like I said before, what is the worst thing that could truely happen to me and my computer if I accept La Grande?
Also not that La Grande doesn't necessarily mean the end of firewall and anti-virus programs. You can combine their strengths, and one can check the other for any abuses, whether from external or internal origin...
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