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2007 in Security

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "Heise Security did a year end review — for the upcoming year 2007. In their crystal ball they see P2P bots, (almost) crashing stock exchanges, dropping prices for zero day exploits and private mails of gmail users published on the google search engine." Speculatory and amusing.

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  1. Re: 2007 in Security by shrtckt · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Educating these users of what their Windows boxes may be barfing out 24/7 is they key to correcting the problem"

    No, the key is to make the ISPs legally liable for preventing the viruses getting on/off your desktop and making an OS that don't get viruses from clicking on a URL or opening an attachment. Making ISPs legally liable for viruses and regulating a users software is just one step closer to having "Big Brother" control our lives (this is one of MS's favorite games). I don't want my bandwidth throttled for packet inspection due to legalities caused by some other idiot surfing a pron site and blaming his ISP for the resulting problems. BTW, that OS you are talking about (that don't get viruses from clicking a URL...) is called Unix.