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"Perhaps ZDNET should put disclaimers in all of their reports for geeks who revel in their genius for running *nix".

Ooooh, testy. The fact is, ZDnet ommited a huge and very relevant piece of technical information from this "tech" article. And that was, that this major problem, which the FBI are warning all US 'citizens' about, is caused by a WINDOWS SPECIFIC problem.

"E makes up 75% of Internet browsers and Windows makes up 91% of Internet browsing operating systems".

EXACTLY. Shoddy Microsoft Windows is the MAIN vector for all security exploits. Pretending (as ZDnet do in this article() that ALL Operating Systems are equally vulnerable is de,liberate misdirection and the only benefactors of this misdirection are Microsoft, who don't like the truth about Windows specific security threats causing the FBI to issue warnings, to be pasted across "tech" articles.

Tell me, if this had been an OS X specific problem, would you have been happy for a ZDnet tech article to advise ALL COMPUTER USERS that they were vulnerable to it? Of course not. You would have bust a valve in your haste to make sure people knew it didn't affect Windows.

Posted by: whisperycat   Posted on: 08/01/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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