Yet Another Internet FUD

Yeah, here is goes again. Another news article that goes on about something trouble the internet. I wonder how long before the Symantec FUD crew comes rolling out alerting everyone to a major security problem with the internet? I figure at least 3 weeks after everyone else does. 3 weeks after that, CERT be releasing their alert as well.

Frankly, anyone running ActiveX deserved what they get. A security fix is not patching something to ask a user (who has no idea of the implications) to decide if its safe to run on their box. Hell, 90% of people won't open e-mails that aren't from someone they know these days because of that.

Come on people, we hear all the time about this kind of thing, and nothing becomes of it. The internet isn't run by a bunch of retards, it just got a large population of them inhabiting it, and they just happen to be more vocal.

I highly doubt the NSA has gotten a packet sniffer of that caliber online. It'd take one hell of a cluster to sniff that kind of data and with all the wrist slapping going on with their wiretapping lately, I imagine they're just doing business as usual, waiting for the right time to slip a bill in to take away some more freedom from the people.

Dan Finch

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