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Schneier On Scareware Vendor Lawsuits
Bruce Schneier's blog says "This is good: Microsoft Corp. and the state of Washington this week filed lawsuits against a slew of 'scareware' purveyors, scam artists who use fake security alerts to frighten consumers into paying for worthless computer security software. "
Sounds a lot like an average Windows advertisement.
http://www.schneier.com/images/book-sos-175w.jpg "The closest the security industry has to a rock star" Well, if that's the case, I'll believe anything he says then. I love rock and roll.
If Schneier wants to stop scaring people he should consider trimming his beard. That face-fro looks like it runs Crysis.
scam artists who use fake security alerts to frighten consumers into paying for worthless computer security software
It was an Apple thing I think warning about some company who was pushing some "extra secure" version of its operating system which in fact gave you less performance and kept nagging at you the whole time. Yup I thought so.
Oh wait this is some OTHER companies who use security as a scare threat via nagging messages to get you to buy software.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Repeat after me: Ad revenue from hits/views.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
When will these ultra-liberal, extremist zealots realize that more regulation just doesn't work? It is no suprise to see that the term "worthless security software" should be bandied about by such out-of-touch elitist snobs. We all know that the free market should determine what is "worthless" and what is not. Why do socialist thugs like Microsoft and the Washington State Attorney General's Office get off, trying to bully patriotic, tax-paying, small computer security businesses this way?
...after all, is there anything as insecure as Windows?
Emo kids?
Anyone got a light for my sig?
Bruce Schneier has a lot more credibility in the security field than the Washington Post, the State of Washington, and Microsoft all put together.
That doesn't mean much. My left arse cheek has a lot more credibility in the security field than the Washington Post, the State of Washington, and Microsoft all put together.
I wouldn't anger him... Bruce Schneier can get identity information from an unpowered, unconnected remote machine, just by glaring in its general direction. If he's feeling particularly good, he doesn't need the direction.