Aug 20 2008

Raison d’être

Waaay back in 2003, I set a task for myself in my belief that everything should fight for its existence: In the long term, in 2007, I want to put Vmyths on trial for its life. Too many things exist when they [no longer have a] reason to exist… What if computer security hysteria drops [...]

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Aug 19 2008

Wikipedia babbles about Russian-Georgian “cyberattacks”

You’ll find details on the aircraft, tanks, and rifles used in this conflict … yet nothing at all on the cyber-weapons. Wikipedia offers not a single clue about the Kremlin’s computing might, software armaments, nor even a map of the major IP boundaries…

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Aug 18 2008

Media lacks “thousands feared dead” headlines in Russian-Georgian “cyber-war”

In a physical war, a politician shouts “Christiane Amanpour’s plane landed at the airport, everyone flee for your lives!” In a cyber-war, a coworker shouts “John Markoff’s story just went online, everyone click on the links!” And why don’t we hear stories about, who knows, maybe Georgia’s victorious counter-thrust into Russian IP space where they dropped a Google-bomb on the .ru TLD, or something like that…?

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Aug 10 2008

Irony abounds in USAF cyberspace hysteria snafu

Do you realize the incredible gullibility exploit here? A hostile military could develop a PowerPoint slideshow, mail it to hysterical USAF personnel, and say “please give this widest possible dissemination.” Even if a gullible flyboy finds out he got duped by an enemy military, history predicts he won’t send out an email to retract the slideshow … because it would embarrass him too much to admit “the enemy exploited my hysteria in an official capacity”…

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Aug 09 2008

Welcome to the new Vmyths main page

Vmyths has taken on a new look & feel for its main page…

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