Re: SearchSecurity: Badware versus malware

["Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com>]

The differences are marginal.
> What's worse, bad software or malicious software? ...

My book has a pervasive theme:
  Many things that could happen accidentally could be triggered 
intentionally.
  Many things that happen intentionally could be triggered accidentally.

Trying to reduce one without the other may be foolhardy in most realistic
threat models.

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