Security Snake Oil

[irneb]

I thought I'd share this: http://www.infoworld.com/print/242138

I can personally vouch for nearly all the points made on that page.

• RAID simply means corrupt data is spread over all your backups immediately.
• AV's never catch everything and constantly tell you that the program you use every day is a virus.
• AV's ALWAYS slow down the PC to the point where they're worse than a virus.
• Firewalls only stop stupid stuff, the dangerous things are already let through.

I've found that a smart user is always several aeons ahead of the most "secure" / "expensive" / "robust" / "redundant" / whatever other snake oil you can mention product. And those products rarely (if at all) help against stupid users.

[irneb]

Same old same old: http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...security_flaws

I'll take "Obvious Statements" for $200, Alex ... Wow ... really? And here's me thinking AV writers are actually quite good at their jobs