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Inside Symantec's 'Security Center'

dipfan writes "There's a fascinating view looking at Symantec's Virginia security centre, where the company defends its corporate clients' networks against those wicked hackers. Scary quote from the Washington Post article: 'The Alexandria facility is a private, miniature version of the kind of public Internet-monitoring capability the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure.'"

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  1. HAHA by ArchieBunker · · Score: 0, Troll

    And theres no bugs whatsoever in linux or even security exploits for that matter. You're just as vulnerable running an unpatched linux box as you are a windows box. For large companies it might be more cost effective to pay someone else to handle the security, but I guess you never thought of that. Typical zealot trash.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  2. Your Standard Conspiracy Theory by mcguyver · · Score: 0, Troll

    So. This is where they come up with the viruses to infect our computers and inflate the sales of their anit-virus software?