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Piracy and Malware - Pfft!
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| A frequent meme in piracy trash talking is that piracy is linked to malware
| (example). If your child is downloading pirated material (so the argument
| goes) they will be downloading it from a malware infected site and infecting
| their own computer resulting in poor performance, data loss and ID theft. A
| variant of this argument is that the downloads expose the kids to evil
| pornographers. Therefore piracy is bad and the government should pass laws
| to stop it.
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| [...]
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| We can concede that malware infecting children’s computers is not only a
| serious problem, but also a problem on which the government ought to take
| action. However, further subsidising the closed source software industry is
| not the solution - these subsidies are the problem. If government wishes to
| protect children from these evils it would use only open data formats for
| data storage and interchange and strongly promote the widespread adoption of
| open source software.
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http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/piracy-and-malware-pfft/
Recent:
Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
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| "I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better",
| says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the security vendor.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147701/malware_spam_and_other_net_pests_rev_up.html
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