Well, you can surely guess what could happen to some people when their bank account details are stolen by scammers like those FakeAV publishers, and the bank puts the account on hold or closes it because of the debt. Not everyone has a good enough insurance to cover this and all the nasty "collateral damage".
I work in a french college, and a two co-workers (who had ordered more than a hundred of those faulty PCs) had a hard time convincing their bosses that it was Dell's fault when the desktops suddenly started to go down one after the other. The common reaction was along the lines of "well if ALL of these computers were at fault, obviously there would be some media coverage about it". Also, there's no such thing as "class action lawsuit" here in France so the college would have had to build its own legal case, which was not an option against such a company. There was immediate need to replace the broken desktops, but Dell also delivered broken motherboards as a replacement.
Kudos to the Dell commercials / techs, which were, then, VERY effective defending the "uncertainty" line depicted by TFA.
"This is a stupid quote. Google doesn't even create the knife. The knife is already there in the cache, and if your library doesn't take care to delete it -- it is already accessible."
Nah, Google takes the knife and gives you an axe instead. That's magic.
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Well, you can surely guess what could happen to some people when their bank account details are stolen by scammers like those FakeAV publishers, and the bank puts the account on hold or closes it because of the debt. Not everyone has a good enough insurance to cover this and all the nasty "collateral damage".
Mmm is this just me, or is the blog article dated "Monday, February 8, 2010" ?
I work in a french college, and a two co-workers (who had ordered more than a hundred of those faulty PCs) had a hard time convincing their bosses that it was Dell's fault when the desktops suddenly started to go down one after the other. The common reaction was along the lines of "well if ALL of these computers were at fault, obviously there would be some media coverage about it". Also, there's no such thing as "class action lawsuit" here in France so the college would have had to build its own legal case, which was not an option against such a company. There was immediate need to replace the broken desktops, but Dell also delivered broken motherboards as a replacement. Kudos to the Dell commercials / techs, which were, then, VERY effective defending the "uncertainty" line depicted by TFA.
"This is a stupid quote. Google doesn't even create the knife. The knife is already there in the cache, and if your library doesn't take care to delete it -- it is already accessible."
Nah, Google takes the knife and gives you an axe instead. That's magic.