Dollar Diddling and the Billion-Dollar Viruses

Dollar Diddling and the Billion-Dollar Viruses
George Smith, 2002-04-29

How journalists tap "experts" to reach absurd conclusions about the cost of computer viruses.

Dollar Diddling and the Billion-Dollar Viruses 2002-05-09
T.B. (1 replies)

Sorry, but the article is just to fade. It will be more interesting a comment about how did they get thouse numbers?

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Dollar Diddling and the Billion-Dollar Viruses 2002-05-16
Nashville

Pu-leeze. If the numbers had *any* basis in reality, don't you think the talking heads would be able to pin it down a LITTLE closer than somewhere between $10B and $100B? That's a $990 billion dollar discrepancy, for crying out loud - more than the gross national product of most countries.

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Dollar Diddling and the Billion-Dollar Viruses 2002-05-10
Anonymous

I understand the point beyond this article as "how many countries could we bombed or even nuked if those damn kids wouldn?t post those money consuming viruses?. Great !
I think that those numbers that u came along with represent the damage done around the world, not only US.
Have u ever c...

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Fuzzy Math 2002-05-16
Fuzzy_Washe

Its my belief that companies are encouraged to use 'fuzzy math' to arrive at a number reflecting damage to their companies; these numbers have no basis in reality. ...

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