RE: [Full-disclosure] NewsForge Article: Can the malware industry betrusted?

["Patrick Nolan" <p.nolan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aside of the quality of the article, the title of the article is a misnomer.

The "malware industry" would represent authors of malware, something that
the named organizations are not part of:

  "players like McAfee, Symantec, and dozens of other firms fight for a
share of a market worth tens-of-billions of dollars a year. I would like to
think that this industry displays the same high degree of ethical standards
and integrity shown by other first-responders..."

A proper (yet still silly) title could then be 

"Can the antimalware industry be trusted?"

After reading the article, trust really wasn't at issue as much as the
author has a beef with certain organizations over the announcement of
alleged inflated statistics and also allegations of fear mongering.

Regards,
 
Patrick Nolan
Virus Researcher

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        From: full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Gray
        Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:19 PM
        To: Full Disclosure
        Subject: [Full-disclosure] NewsForge Article: Can the malware
industry betrusted?
        
        
        Quite a good article :-
         
        
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1832223&from=rss
         
        Aaron


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