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Date: Thu Jun 8 22:02:12 2006 From: angray at beeb.net (Aaron Gray) Subject: NewsForge Article: Can the malware industrybetrusted? Yes the title is really incorrect. Should be "Can the security industry be trusted ?" Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Nolan" <p.nolan@...cast.net> To: "'Full Disclosure'" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:30 PM Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] NewsForge Article: Can the malware industrybetrusted? > > Aside of the quality of the article, the title of the article is a > misnomer. > > The "malware industry" would represent authors of malware, something that > the named organizations are not part of: > > "players like McAfee, Symantec, and dozens of other firms fight for a > share of a market worth tens-of-billions of dollars a year. I would like > to > think that this industry displays the same high degree of ethical > standards > and integrity shown by other first-responders..." > > A proper (yet still silly) title could then be > > "Can the antimalware industry be trusted?" > > After reading the article, trust really wasn't at issue as much as the > author has a beef with certain organizations over the announcement of > alleged inflated statistics and also allegations of fear mongering. > > Regards, > > Patrick Nolan > Virus Researcher > > ________________________________ > > From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk > [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Aaron Gray > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:19 PM > To: Full Disclosure > Subject: [Full-disclosure] NewsForge Article: Can the malware > industry betrusted? > > > Quite a good article :- > > > http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1832223&from=rss > > Aaron > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/359 - Release Date: 08/06/2006 >
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