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Re: Viruses


From: Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:47:21 -0400 (EDT)

[...]  This speaks to the idea that [cr]ackers/intruders/virus
writers are good at telling you how to protect your systems.

They aren't.

One anecdote does not a statistical proclamation make.  I suspect that,
statistically speaking, they _are_ better, though probably not by as
much as many people assume.

However, the high end of the non-cracker curve is definitely well above
the low end of the cracker curve. :-)

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