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Re: Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked

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Who is trying to control and rein in antivirus companies?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/how_antivirus...

Antivirus companies do not need government coercion not to detect malware. They do a pretty good job of that all by themselves.

Re: Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked

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The best world yet.

The worst too...

I kind of agree, but in a merely technical way :) I like the oriental philosophical outlook, so basically, I would have to say, the world is simply what it is. Labelling it "good" or "bad", in an absolute-judgement kind of way, is arbitrary and useless.

But here, the topic was very specific - to say that picking the lesser evil is a bad thing is actually, I'm sorry to say, spoiled. Being able to pick at all is a luxury, which some do not have to this day. And let's not even go into all the other problems we no longer face today, at least in large parts of the world.

That's not to say we don't have a tonne of work ahead of us. We probably always will. And criticism is essential in making progress. But just saying that "the world" has gone bad is not helpful criticism, it's defeatist. Because, what can we do if it has indeed gone bad? Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Re: Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked

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Unfortunately our standard web browsers are insecure because of the way Javascripts work.

In practice, JavaScript on the Web doesn't seem to be very high on the list of malware vectors.

Isn't this what XSS is.. ?
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