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Re: DefCon 'Race to Zero'


From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:05:02 GMT

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- -- Colin Keigher <colin () afreak ca> wrote:

And yet the general public still unknowingly gets malware by downloading 
applications that let them have free MP3s or whatever they want today. 
Defcon can allow proper exposure on this subject.


Proper exposure?

I'm sorry, but if people don't already realize that their behavior
is already dangerous by reading the plethora of data, articles,
research, blogs, etc. that is available, some controversial contest
to write "stealthy" malware at DefCon ain't gonna do it either.

$.02,

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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