tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post8822911126780029876..comments2023-08-26T05:04:33.009-04:00Comments on anti-virus rants: silencing the selloutkurt wismerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03810635947269551517noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post-68979584965842166232007-07-22T05:01:00.000-04:002007-07-22T05:01:00.000-04:00Some of the threats and "carrying-on" are so predi...Some of the threats and "carrying-on" are so predictable. When poked about being vulnerable, the Mac community say "show us, then". Now that someone has, they go nuts.<BR/><BR/>I'm a mac user myself these days and I see a lot of this. All hardware and software sucks to some degree in my experience, but the reality distortion field stops some people from seeing that.<BR/><BR/>Microsoft, for all their faults, seem to be much more mature than Apple in their response to security incidents. As much as people criticise Microsoft's processes here, they're scoring much higher than Apple when it comes to talking about the impact of vulnerabilities, which patches are urgently needed, steps you can take to mitigate threats in the meantime, etc. Remember, I'm not claiming MS are perfect - they don't need to be just to beat Apple at this game I'm afraid.<BR/><BR/>I got a (very mild) flaming in mac newsgroups for trying to talk about the last vulnerability that got made public, and here we are with an actual worm and acres of childish death threats and badly spelt profanity.<BR/><BR/>Some of these people really do think they're living in Walt Disney's magic castle or something and any attempt to bring reality in just isn't welcome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post-9015768460587734212007-07-22T02:31:00.000-04:002007-07-22T02:31:00.000-04:00"infosecsellout hasn't been on my rss feeds for a ..."infosecsellout hasn't been on my rss feeds for a while not"<BR/><BR/>to each their own... i wasn't exactly hanging off their every word either, but the blog struck a chord on occasion...<BR/><BR/>"there was just something almost useless in their tone of posts that seemed more like someone (young) trying to pick fights and express an opinion more harsh than they maybe could without a pseudonym."<BR/><BR/>well, that's kind of the point of anonymity, isn't it... to have the freedom to express your true feelings about something without fear of reprisal... maybe the message in question is useless or maybe it isn't - unfortunately there's no objective yardstick to measure the quality of these things...<BR/><BR/>"I hope no one's jobs or lives have been too negatively impacted by all this crap."<BR/><BR/>yeah, me too...kurt wismerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03810635947269551517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post-83348425199314546012007-07-22T01:52:00.000-04:002007-07-22T01:52:00.000-04:00This is all way more drama than I care to get invo...This is all way more drama than I care to get involved in, but infosecsellout hasn't been on my rss feeds for a while not; not that I didn't give them a chance, but there was just something almost useless in their tone of posts that seemed more like someone (young) trying to pick fights and express an opinion more harsh than they maybe could without a pseudonym. It turned me off enough that I removed them a few months ago at least...wish I had paid slight more attention...but again, that's drama avoided.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, no matter who it is or the effects/news/drama around it, I hope the people making threats didn't mean it any more than normal immature over-the-top-to-make-a-point insults on the nets, and I hope no one's jobs or lives have been too negatively impacted by all this crap.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357840241031190415noreply@blogger.com