Consider someone with passable internet skills searching for Winzip and ending up at:
http://download.cnet.com/WinZip/3000-2250_4-10003164.html
Which button are they are most likely to click and do you think that is what they are after?
Which button are they are most likely to click and do you think that is what they are after?
I suppose it's a good parallel to the drug laws: you push people to the illegal market when it becomes impossible to get what you want through the ethical/legal route.
Remember what happened when advertisers started increasing the volume of their TV spots? Do you think that increased sales, or just annoyed people enough to change channels? And what happened in the end with that? Because my recollection is that the FCC stepped in to curb those practices.
You're not quite making a moral case that it's my duty to open my computer to exploitation to browse the web.
No worries though. Developers will continue to come back to HN and bitch about losing their high paying development jobs.
I'm tired of trying to defend stupid...and just do what everyone else does and capitalize on it instead. The company that writes the most popular Ad block extension has done just this: you can pay to get yourself on a white list. Tell me again how this has anything to do with saving people from malware?
I've done my part for society.
It's amazing that there are so many smart people that can't see the forest through the trees.