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It is not legitimate to undermine the user's desire to secure their own computer. I don't think they should be hiding files and programs and registry entries from the system administrator, ever.


Edward Felten

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EDWARD DAHLBERG Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
EDWARD YOUNG If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders...
EDWARD HOAGLAND You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ...
EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
EDWARD DAHLBERG