Comments on: Poor Conficker … we hardly knew ye http://Vmyths.com/2009/08/10/conficker/ Truth about computer security hysteria Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Rosenberger http://Vmyths.com/2009/08/10/conficker/comment-page-1/#comment-462 Rob Rosenberger Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:58:06 +0000 http://Vmyths.com/?p=788#comment-462 ::All you can do is continue to ::point it out when it happens. Yeah, but it takes a lot of effort NOT to sound like a broken record. Great metaphors don't grow on trees, you know! :-) ::All you can do is continue to
::point it out when it happens.

Yeah, but it takes a lot of effort NOT to sound like a broken record. Great metaphors don’t grow on trees, you know! :-)

]]> By: Corrections and Clarifications http://Vmyths.com/2009/08/10/conficker/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Corrections and Clarifications Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:48:12 +0000 http://Vmyths.com/?p=788#comment-461 We corrected the spelling of Mikko Hyppönen's name throughout this column. The spelling error in Rob Rosenberger's comment will remain standing. We corrected the spelling of Mikko Hyppönen’s name throughout this column. The spelling error in Rob Rosenberger’s comment will remain standing.

]]> By: Gsparky http://Vmyths.com/2009/08/10/conficker/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Gsparky Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:17:10 +0000 http://Vmyths.com/?p=788#comment-460 We'll forgive you, Rob. Anyone who can use an interesting metaphor AND the word "penultimate" on the same web page is given a free pass for accidentally cutting a paragraph. That said, the problem is not one just in the computer media industry. Reporting in general, whether private (bloggers) or public (big-time media industry such as Time or the New York Post), has always had the problem of "forgetting" when things didn't, uh, *quite go as they foretold*. All you can do is continue to point it out when it happens. We’ll forgive you, Rob. Anyone who can use an interesting metaphor AND the word “penultimate” on the same web page is given a free pass for accidentally cutting a paragraph.

That said, the problem is not one just in the computer media industry. Reporting in general, whether private (bloggers) or public (big-time media industry such as Time or the New York Post), has always had the problem of “forgetting” when things didn’t, uh, *quite go as they foretold*. All you can do is continue to point it out when it happens.

]]> By: Rob Rosenberger http://Vmyths.com/2009/08/10/conficker/comment-page-1/#comment-459 Rob Rosenberger Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:13:31 +0000 http://Vmyths.com/?p=788#comment-459 This morning I realized I must have accidentally cut my penultimate paragraph while pasting Leyden's summary into my draft column. The missing paragraph before "Rest in peace" went like this: "Leyden's commentary won't surprise my longtime readers, but it's always good to hear it from a respected journalist who covers the computer security beat. It explains why Hypönnen can't spread a (reasonable) message of concern over a still-current threat ... and why Leyden can't find enough (legitimate) sources who care enough to analyze data on a threat that no longer tantalizes the media. But hey, what else is new?" This morning I realized I must have accidentally cut my penultimate paragraph while pasting Leyden’s summary into my draft column. The missing paragraph before “Rest in peace” went like this:

“Leyden’s commentary won’t surprise my longtime readers, but it’s always good to hear it from a respected journalist who covers the computer security beat. It explains why Hypönnen can’t spread a (reasonable) message of concern over a still-current threat … and why Leyden can’t find enough (legitimate) sources who care enough to analyze data on a threat that no longer tantalizes the media. But hey, what else is new?”

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