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Vulnerability Numerology - Defective by Design?
rdmreader writes "RDM has a point by point disassembly of the security vulnerability story phenomenon. We regularly see these, comparing various vulnerability lists for different operating systems. ZDNet's George Ou, for example, condemns Linux and Mac OS X by tallying up reported flaws and comparing them against Microsoft's. What he doesn't note is that his source, Secunia, only lists what vendors and researchers report. Results selectively include or exclude component software seemingly at random, and backhandedly claims its data is evidence of what it now tells journalists they shouldn't report. Is Secunia presenting slanted information with the expectation it will be misused?"
No, I think he's saying if you apply numerology to trojans/virii, you can gain insight into their personalities...
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Look, it's really quite simple what he's trying to say: If you add the letters of "ROUGHLYDRAFTED.COM" (A=1, Z=26, . = 0), you get 195. Add those digits together and you get 15. Again, add a third time and you get 6. So after adding the digits together three times, we get 6. Six repeated three times is "666", which is specified in the Bible as being the mark of the devil.
Now, if you do the same thing with "SECUNIA", you get 72. 7+2 = 9. And 9, added to itself, is 18, and its digits also add up to 9. So nine is obviously significant.
What does this mean? It's quite simple. The Devil, as specified by the Bible, is also what tempted Adam and Eve to take an Apple from the tree of knowledge. You see where this is going? ROUGHLYDRAFTED.COM is essentially saying that Apple is the source of knowledge. Whereas SECUNIA's, like, nine, or something.
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