This is just the BBC jumping onto the IT security bandwagon again. Whenever a theoretical threat which any sensible user will not be vulnerable to anyway is reported by a researcher, the BBC immediately trumps it up on their news programs as the end of the internet.
We've already had 'end of the internet' panics from them in the last year about spam, virii, child porn, spyware, and lack of bandwidth.
This style of reporting just indicates the increasingly dumbed down approach of the BBC to news.
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This is just the BBC jumping onto the IT security bandwagon again. Whenever a theoretical threat which any sensible user will not be vulnerable to anyway is reported by a researcher, the BBC immediately trumps it up on their news programs as the end of the internet.
We've already had 'end of the internet' panics from them in the last year about spam, virii, child porn, spyware, and lack of bandwidth.
This style of reporting just indicates the increasingly dumbed down approach of the BBC to news.