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kikkO 
Good luck with that even some of the mods are anti-Apple.
So far we've had a good discussion with minimal issues.
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Originally Posted by
kikkO
Many of us are [fed up], but people will always remain willfully ignorant and their excuse? I like to keep things simple.
Mass media and Hollywood further encourages this ignorance. Just count call the shows and movies where they call the computer a "hard drive".
I'm all for defining malware properly (i.e. Trojans, Worms, and Spyware.) but this persistent and sometimes willful ignorance makes defining things to a point unnecessary and can take way from the overall impact in discussion.
I can agree and disagree in how the ignorance is further perpetrated by the media. They are using terms familiar to the general public. The problem lies in their interest for the topic at hand, and what relevance does it matter to them. To be fair, it doesn't matter that they know the difference between the tower and hard drive. If they are technicians, then it matters. To make a previously stated analogy, I don't prescribe myself medication, so it's not necessary for me to determine weather or not I have a bacterial or viral infection.
The point of the article is to illuminate the unnecessary and intentional deviations caused by defining terms in an effort to detract from the overall topic at hand, which is security.
Edited by MediaRocker - 5/15/12 at 12:08am
