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What's dangerous is that people are letting the military, politicians and the cybersecurity industry raise the hype and fear about the online world. That will o
by rsingel 17y ago
What's dangerous is that people are letting the military, politicians and the cybersecurity industry raise the hype and fear about the online world. That will only feed their budgets and militarize the internet. Remember the hype around Conficker and "cyberwar" in Estonia. Neither, in hindsight, meant anything. Good network security practices for the government? Sure! A secretive government internet security program run by the NSA and DHS and a Pentagon botnet? No, no, no.
- tptacek 17y agoWhich is why it's disappointing that even the people on these comment threads haven't managed to be more cynical about all the Conficker stories that have been posted over the past several months.