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DZone has an interesting, if short, article about a young scammer who apparently understands what "snake oil" is and was selling the digital equivalent. He sold an app through the Google Play Store that purported to scan an Android device for malware but, in fact, did nothing. It did, however, keep its other promises such as no ads and a minimal impact on battery life.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Friday April 18 2014, @01:05AM
Reminds me of my "linux AV" program I wrote when it was ./av.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "Scan complete, no viruses found"
This was deemed suspicious as it was too quick. For some added realism I extended it ./av2.sh /dev/null 2>&1
#!/bin/bash
echo "Initial scan complete, no viruses found"
find / >
echo "Full disk scan complete, no viruses found"
The machine was never infected by a virus, therefore it worked. It could be a host, but no more than the FTP server on the cisco switch.
(Score: 2) by clone141166 on Friday April 18 2014, @12:00PM
Reminds me of "rainmakers". You pay a man to make it rain. If it rains he takes credit for it, if it doesn't rain he finds some excuse to pass off the blame and asks for more money to make it rain... repeat ad infinitum.
Just like those people who sell new strategies to managers to improve performance *cough* Agile Development *cough*.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday April 18 2014, @09:58PM
Rainmakers? Is that some cloud-related technology?