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Inside Symantec's 'Security Center'

Posted by Hemos on from the look-into-the-future dept.

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. In Soviet Russia ... by ComradeEnchilada · · Score: -1, Troll

    wicked hackers defend corporate networks against YOU!

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      That is not that bad. I have heard worse.

  2. Those Goddamned Dell Interns... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those dummies need a good pimpslapping. "Happy trails, little buddy! Here's hoping S(hit) Jackson gives you a good home!" Fuckwads... pretty human kleenex, that's all they are.

  3. OK, I gotta burn off some karma .... by nbvb · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, hot grits pour Cowboy Neal down profits!

  4. Sad news ... Stephen King is dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

  5. 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
  6. The Irony by cp5i6 · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know I've always heard the linux guys constantly complain about how stupid the MS guys are... Yet there's irony in this..

    Going by the logic that MS guys are stupid you should infer that MS guys wouldn't have the knowledge to write a virus... IE stupid people can't write somewhat hard programs. (p -> q logic)

    so that leaves us with the supposed "smart" people or the linux people. That must mean because the "stupid" MS people can't write viruses it must be all the linux people that are writing Windows viruses.

    Now if you look at it from that stand point. If you retarded linux people would Stop writing viruses for Us Windows people, you wouldn't have to bitch about how windows is soo insecure.


    Here's another bit of irony. You notice how everyone here bitches about how insecure windows is.. how MS software is crap. Honestly people, if you are all using open office with your flavor of linux WHY THE FLYING FUCK WOULD YOU CARE IF WINDOWS IS INSECURE! Oh wait what is this? You guys are all hypocrites because you all still use windows?!?!?

    Go Figure

    BTW i think someone should make a website like that... a spinning globe taht displays where hackers are popping up from..
    that would be a good water cooler conversation here at work.

  7. 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?