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Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
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Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
#42If you look in blockchain, antivirus or AI, you’ll find heaps of snake oil salesmen.
Why antivirus?
Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
#43If you look in blockchain, antivirus or AI, you’ll find heaps of snake oil salesmen.
Why antivirus?
In order to have a 100% effective AntiVirus program, you'd effectively have to be able to solve the halting problem, and predict the behavior of every program before you ran it.
If, instead, the Operating System did its job, and enforced the choices of the user, we wouldn't be in this pickle.
Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
#44I suppose McKinsey could fit the bill and much of the tech consulting world for that matter. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ
A fun search I do is “McKinsey estimates” and see some bonkers numbers about hyped things that never really took off, at least nowhere to the degree they estimate.
Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why antivirus?
In order to have a 100% effective AntiVirus program, you'd effectively have to be able to solve the halting problem, and predict the behavior of every program before you ran it. If, instead, the Operating System did its job, and enforced the choices of the user, we wouldn't be in this pickle.
It is still defense in depth though? Having email attachments run though AV is going to save someones ass even if said person should be cognisant of phishing attacks.
Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
#46techlead,joma tech,99pc of Indian YouTubers,people who gaurantee you a job after buying a course,scaler academy
Oh yeah the Ex google ex Facebook ex Amazon tech lead
Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
#47Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why antivirus?
In order to have a 100% effective AntiVirus program, you'd effectively have to be able to solve the halting problem, and predict the behavior of every program before you ran it. If, instead, the Operating System did its job, and enforced the choices of the user, we wouldn't be in this pickle.
Maybe nowadays it's not required. Back when I used Windows XP connected to the Internet, it was mandatory. Ofc it wasn't better than common sense but it saved me a lot of times.
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