Re: DefCon 'Race to Zero'

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> > [...] One of the things about IT security which continues to amaze
> > and disappoint me simultaneously is that a huge number of people
> > have come to accept that it's "routine" for systems to be
> > succesfully attacked by [malware].
> Anyone who actually thinks that AV is some magic bullet is sorely
> misguided -- it is simply yet another tool.  Period.

Well, sure.  But that it's a useful tool says a lot about the state of
the system(s) it's useful on.  And that by and large people accept the
sort of level of OS security that makes AV useful is...well, as rsk put
it, "a testament to the persuasive power of marketing and a prima facie
indicator of abysmally poor operating system security".

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