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Archive of our tweets for October 2010
[Continued from September 2010 tweets]

Vmyths archives its Twitter feed for historical clarity. If it went out via our “vmyths” account, you’ll find it here — along with any needed explanations, clarifications, corrections, and apologies. Co-founder Rob Rosenberger submitted all the tweets this month.
- 1 October 2010
- RT @WeldPond RT @451wendy: @WeldPond I’ll have #Stuxnet tart; that hasn’t got so much #Stuxnet in it … < Ha!
- 4 October 2010
- Bravo! @marylande exposes #Stuxnet absurdities with a beautiful absurd alternate theory http://bit.ly/c34vUg
- October 2010
- Columnist absolves AV for failing when you need it to succeed; insists that’s why you should buy it! http://bit.ly/aCPuzy
- 24yrs of virus evolution. Suddenly, Steve #Ballmer fears #Stuxnet may destroy the global economy? Bah. http://bit.ly/aFd5mu
- 6 October 2010
- Bruce #Schneier injects a dose of reason into #Stuxnet media circus http://onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/10/01/02
- The logical next step is to outsource hysterical press releases to India http://tinyurl.com/2g7mcz4
- 7 October 2010
- RT @ChetWisniewski #Stuxnet minus the hype, what you actually need to know http://bit.ly/apbsr3
- @baker1 @sjvn From 2001: “Grandma is a heinous potential threat to the Internet” http://Vmyths.com/column/1/2001/9/29
- @gcluley @mikkohypponen Again with the antivirus porn? My take on it in 2001: http://Vmyths.com/column/1/2001/9/5
- Dear Symantec, just do your job. Leave the humor, irony, satire to Vmyths http://is.gd/fQ9qr (thx @attritionorg)
- Huh? If a #cyberwar erupts, USAF will tell America to yank batteries out of their BlackBerries http://ur1.ca/203ek
- 8 October 2010
- Compare “Microsoft+Adobe” to the REAL patch nightmare http://Vmyths.com/column/1/2003/1/23
- 9 October 2010
- Kudos to @marylande for battling UFO kooks & psyonic freaks with their BS #Stuxnet theories http://bit.ly/duRE1e
- Should I battle the UFO kooks? Or just admit “only an alien master race could have programmed #Stuxnet”?
- @SCADAGospel not since 1988, that’s for sure –>”the truth isn’t sensational enough I take it?”
- 10 October 2010
- Old spies put magnet on shoe for ball bearing factory tour. New spies write #Stuxnet. It’s just the evolution of espionage.
- 12 October 2010
- Anniversary of deadly USS Cole attack -> it wasn’t as bad as the Nimda virus http://Vmyths.com/column/1/2003/5/20
- Well, well! Iran intelligence official claims arrested nuclear spies NOT behind #Stuxnet worm http://bit.ly/aWVGge
- 13 October 2010
- RT @thorstenholz “Lies, Damn Lies, and Botnet Size” – http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20100705
- 8yrs ago: the horribly ironic death of an FBI “cyber” expert http://Vmyths.com/column/1/2002/10/18
- 14 October 2010
- Appendix A of USAF’s new cyberspace doctrine failed to undergo vetting http://bit.ly/9Jrjrw #Schneier see item #9
- 15 October 2010
- Can the Pentagon’s free antivirus software detect the malicious printers they mentioned in item #2? http://bit.ly/9Jrjrw
- 20 October 2010
- RT @peterkruse Top 10 Myths of Safe Web Browsing, http://bit.ly/cM5kah
- 22 October 2010
- 6yrs of secret Iraq war logs … yields ZERO hits on “cyber” http://Vmyths.com/column/1/2003/5/19 #wikileaks
- Katie Shipley of Eugene, OR falls for “Hallmark” hoax virus and dupes Huliq reporter Dave Masko http://bit.ly/avu4d0
- A crocodile has crashed more aircraft than all cyber-terrorists in the world combined http://bit.ly/9liEss
- 23 October 2010
- RT @mikkohypponen Search the Iraq War Logs for “hackers” and try to make some sense out of it. I couldn’t. http://bit.ly/aETDNG
- Do you swipe your kid’s phone to review txt archive? Soldiers do the same in Iraq http://bit.ly/cQ0oZB (thx Mikko)
- 25 October 2010
- Lying virus experts don’t get punished. They get rewarded! http://Vmyths.com/column/1/2002/10/20
- 27 October 2010
- “Weapons of mass destruction include computer viruses as well as North Korean missiles” http://Vmyths.com/column/1/1999/10/28
- 28 October 2010
- Speaking of #Wikileaks: the White House once saw Vmyths.com as a threat to nat’l security http://bit.ly/cbo03e
- 31 October 2010
- From 1998: Halloween stories about computer nerds http://Vmyths.com/column/1/1998/11/12
- Which is deadlier? #Indonesia volcano http://bit.ly/anlqf0 or Indonesia cyber-terrorist http://youtu.be/6Z9jlfo4bxo
- Weeks ago I warned “Al #Qaeda infiltrated the…printer cartridge refill industry” http://bit.ly/aobBqd
- RT @seanlawson: Check out my latest piece for Forbes.com: How Non-Geek #Government Can Make #Cyber #Policy http://bit.ly/b2Ahs7 #cyberwar #cybersecurity
[Continued in November 2010 tweets]