Re: NewsForge Article: Can the malware industrybetrusted?

["Aaron Gray" <angray () beeb net>]

Yes the title is really incorrect.

Should be "Can the security industry be trusted ?"

Aaron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Nolan" <p.nolan () comcast net>
To: "'Full Disclosure'" <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] NewsForge Article: Can the malware 
industrybetrusted?


> 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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> [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk] 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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