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posted by janrinok on Friday February 28 2014, @10:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-not-illegal-if-governments-do-it dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"A surprising number of governments are now deploying their own custom malware and the end result could be chaos for the rest of us, F-Secure's malware chief Mikko Hypponen told the TrustyCon ( https://www.trustycon.org/ ) conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

'Governments writing viruses: today we sort of take that for granted but 10 years ago that would have been science fiction,' he told the public conference. 'If someone had come to me ten years ago and told me that by 2014 it will be commonplace for democratic Western governments to write viruses and actively deploy them against other governments, even friendly governments, I would have thought it was a movie plot. But that's exactly where we are today.'

http://www.scmagazine.com/trustycon-malware-expert -mikko-hypponen-kicks-off-conference-on-trust/arti cle/336089/"

 
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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @10:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @10:34PM (#8848)

    Fat Porn Pidgeon of the day.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by mrider on Friday February 28 2014, @10:42PM

    by mrider (3252) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:42PM (#8854)

    Is it plucked and covered with hot mullet?

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    Doctor: "Do you hear voices?"

    Me: "Only when my bluetooth is charged."

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @11:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @11:28PM (#8884)

    Congratulations on your first post sir. Unfortunately, your pathetic troll life has probably peaked, and it will be all downhill from this moment forward.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @01:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @01:24AM (#8922)

      Thankyou for the congratulations, which will serve as encouragement for trolls everywhere.