If that’s a war, then what words will we cheapen when something worse comes along? Will we call it a “cyber genocide”? A “cyber holocaust,” perhaps?

President Obama’s cyber­security speech is essen­tially the same as Presi­dent Clinton’s speech 11 years ago — right down to the debut of a flawed presi­den­tial report…

Federal agencies rely on super­sti­tious rhetoric when it comes to cyber­space secu­rity. Obama doesn’t want change here — he clearly wants Ameri­cans to accept the status quo…

It doesn’t make it any more real when it flows from the lips of the president of the United States…

And then, just for good measure, he touted a new McAfee product that can protect you from being duped— protect you from the hysteria he— protect you from the threat he concocted— oh, never mind…

Hysteria thrives wherever the experts lack discipline. When the media latches onto the next “big worm,” we might very well see a lot of Twitter hysteria (”twitsteria”?) from the experts. The intelligence world will recognize it as a “stovepipe” problem…

We’ll use Twitter to dispel computer security hype. Period. You won’t get tweets about our speaking engagements, or the bad airline food we ate, or the Dr. Who episodes we missed…

McAfee CMO David Milam will receive a very special envelope sometime this week. Let’s hope he gets well soon. After all: a mind is a terrible thing to waste…

McAfee’s marketing team has used a solar calculator since 1988 to come up with whatever numbers they think reporters want to hear. Now McAfee insists spam releases 17 million metric tons of CO² into the atmosphere each year…

{Updated 13 Apr 09} You gotta laugh at any virus expert who warns “don’t click links” and then immediately follows his warning with … a link.