Soon al-Qaeda will kill you on the Internet

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

Soon al-Qaeda will kill you on the Internet
By Thomas C Greene in Washington

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), known for kicking doors with dogs and
brownshirts to sniff out expired licenses and for extorting vast sums of
cash from non-compliant victims even more frightened of a visit from that
federal Copyright-911 force also known as the FBI, has taken it upon itself
to cobble up a survey which, in the addled minds of the mainstream press,
indicates that al-Qaeda has obtained the weapons of mass, digital
destruction, and is poised to use them. Western Europe and North America
will be razed by a holy onslaught of SYN floods and VB worms and buffer
overflows. All Christendom will be laid waste.

Actually, if you bother to read the 'report', you'll find that the BSA
drivel does nothing more than record the fears of "IT pros" convinced that
this is an eventuality. It offers not one shred of evidence that plans are
in the works; not one hint of how this diabolical assault on your life and
you daughter's virginity might be accomplished; not one scrap of actual,
firsthand research.

full:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25938.html


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