We’re not saying give them special treatment. Only that it’s time to treat these former fanboys with the respect and humility they deserve, and help keep them malware-free and save them from bad design…
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Media circus, Press releases, Security vendors, Victims of hysteria | Gordon Fecyk | 
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Speaking with an air of authority doesn’t actually make you an authority on a given topic…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Antivirus vendors & computer news outlets played a much greater role than they’ll ever admit…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Along the way I’ve exposed numerous “experts” who fell for a computer security hoax. My desire to understand why experts get duped led me to pick up Dr. Madeleine L. Van Hecke’s new book on the topic…
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Victims of hysteria, Website issues | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
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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