Re: Viruses

[Martin Wehlou <listbox () wehlou com>]

On 19 Jul 2011, at 23:17, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:

> Just in case you haven't seen it yet, Mikko Hyppönen's recent TED talk on 
> viruses and the net:

Um... yeah, interesting, but very worrying for other reasons than the presumed. It's too much "be afraid, be very 
afraid" for my taste.

For some reason, he finds the correlation between a code in a virus and the licenseplate of a russian with a very 
expensive car enough of proof of crime to "rest his case". If there is one danger of today's scare hype, it is this; 
jumping to conclusions on very shaky evidence. 

Then, after talking about Stuxnet, without explaining why it had no effect on any other PLCs than Iran's, he says the 
lights will go out. Leading into scares about Google and Facebook disappearing from the net. How did he get from 
keyloggers to that? 

No, I didn't like this talk one bit.



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