Nothing to Fear... ?

Nothing to Fear... ?
Scott Granneman, 2007-02-08

Scott Granneman looks at the use of fear in computer security, from misleading media reports and gross exaggeration by industry leaders to the use of fear in order to sell new computers and software.

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-09
Arko Dhar

Steve Ballmer Quote : "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source."

Look who is talking about licensing . Its truely ...

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-09
assurbanipal

"Bill is heavily drugged and delusional"... I *like* that!
Reality is, both Gate$ and Ballmer are champions of FUD-spreading.
Which is yet another big shame Micro$oft has no need for....

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Irony? 2007-02-09
Anonymous

An article about FUD with an ad running:

Attackers are targeting you
Can you stay one step ahead?
Use CORE IMPACT

Using "...misleading media reports and gross exaggeration by industry leaders to the use of fear in order to sell new computers and software" indeed....

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-09
pootiel0ver

Great article, all of the fear mongering in our society drives me crazy....

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-12
Anonymous

Of course statements by Gates and Balmer do not improve security. But then it's my guess that they are not primarily interested in that. Their interest is making money by maintaining or improving the dominance of the different Windows versions. They are interested in better security only if it serve...

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-12
Anonymous

Actually, Gates cleverly used that month to make a very true statement about Apple, since it was during the "Month of Apple Bugs" or MOAB that he was quoted: http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/

Pretty ingenious as far as his timing goes....

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-12
alansky

The entire advertising industry runs on fear?fear of missing out on the benefits of the latest whatever, for starters. But Bill Gates has been shamelessly exploiting the ignorance of his interviewers and Microsoft's customers. I don't think the richest man in the world gets that way by being delusio...

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-12
Anonymous (1 replies)

That reporter did not do his job. The reporters job is to research and verify what is discussed in an interview. I expect more fact checking from a prominent newsmagazine, especially when a statement such as Bill made is relatively easy to verify. Instead, what is printed will be taken as fact by it...

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Re: Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-12
Anonymous (1 replies)

Bills statement is easy to verify?! Wow... If you are talking about the "MOAB", they did not have exploits everyday that could 'completely take over the mac'. A lot of them were for third party apps anyway, nothing to do with OSX.

He's talking rubbish....

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Re: Re: Nothing to Fear... ? 2009-05-07
Anonymous

A majority of all exploits are with installed software, on any OS....

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-12
Larshart

Maybe Bill Gates meant "getting bought" instead of "getting broken into"...

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-15
BlueCollarPCNet (1 replies)

Please accept this as "Let's Work Together, okay?":

In a present world whereby over 100,000,000 computers are rifled into malware controlled zombie networks ("Botnet Cartel") with expert estimates as from 7 to 11 percent of all computers accounting for up to and over 60 percent of world spam (UC...

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Re: Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-20
Anonymous

"In a present world whereby over 100,000,000 computers are rifled into malware controlled zombie networks ('Botnet Cartel') with expert estimates as from 7 to 11 percent of all computers accounting for up to and over 60 percent of world spam (UCE) and directly and indirectly responsible for up to or...

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Nothing to Fear... ? 2007-02-15
Anonymous

LOL! this article from the person that does his best to spread as much exaggerated fear about Microsoft or any Microsoft product or personality. I mean look at the bolded quote from Scott, classic....

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