Google-ized - An Interview with Adam Engel
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| Right now, I'd say that more than 90 percent of my email is junk or
| SPAM. Commercial security programs like MacAfee try to sell me a fix,
| but having once worked as a systems administrator for a giant law
| firm trying to prevent workers from visiting porn sites, I know that
| the general population of users is always ahead of individual
| companies. Do we really NEED to search every site on the Web, or is
| that another Capitalist come-on? Do we really need to build bigger,
| more complex mail programs that gobble up memory and PAY for "mail
| defense?" Or do we need to work for privacy, individual user rights,
| etc.? Ultimately, what I'm saying is that GNU/Linux develops more
| slowly now only because the programmers, though the best in the world,
| are mostly volunteers, but because, not playing the capitalist game
| of one-upmanship and keeping up with the Joneses, the programs
| GNU/Linux develops are more practical and geared toward the greater
| good, like the GNOME and KDE Desktops, and Open Office office suite,
| which are not only on par with those created by Mac/Windows, but
| also can be modulated from scratch by knowledgeable individuals.
| That's the brilliance of GNU/Linux -- you're collaborating with
| the best programmers/designers etc. from all over the world.
| GNU/Linux grew with the Web, yet many users still use text-based
| mail programs because they're faster, lighter, use less memory,
| and often more practical.
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| Again, I urge people to read the GNU Manifesto, CopyLeft, GNU Public
| License (GPL) and other GNU/Linux and FSF literature to see how shocking
| it is that GNU Linux didn't become standard fare for ALL leftists ten
| year ago. Already, Apache Servers on Linux run a great deal of
| websites.
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http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/Petersen20.htm
Related:
Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
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| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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