Malware Is a Disease; Let's Treat It Like One

jfruhlinger writes "The most common metaphor we have for computer malware — 'virus' — emphasizes that in many ways malicious computer code mimics biological pathogens. And yet, while the U.S. government has rapid response plans in place for an outbreak of a new disease, we're content to let the private sector react to hugely damaging computer infections. Tom Henderson thinks we need the cybersecurity equivalent of the CDC."

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Humans are more valuable than Computers

[Shatrat]

If a disease outbreak ravages the country and kills the young, the old, the weak, that would be a huge tragedy.
If a virus ravages the country and kills off Windows XP, Adobe Flash, and IIS, then the strong will have survived and the software world will be a better place.