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I don't know that the "market share" argument is unfalsifyable. The Witty Worm of 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witty_(computer_worm) http://en.wikipedia.o
by bediger 15y ago
I don't know that the "market share" argument is unfalsifyable. The Witty Worm of 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witty_(computer_worm) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witty_(computer_worm)) attacked a particular vendor's firewall implementation. It seems to have infected every one of the 12,000 members of the susceptible population. That's a pretty small market share, even in the firewall market, even in 2004.
The Witty Worm seems like a good counter-example of the "market share" argument.
As for full disclosure, I personally regard the "market share" argument as a form of the Special Pleading logical fallacy.
- wtallis 15y agoThe Witty Worm could be explained by those firewalls being considered far more valuable or vulnerable targets than desktop PCs. The market share argument typically assumes that those factors are roughly the same for Macs and Windows machines, and that the only significant difference (or at least, the dominant factor) is the size of the target population.