On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:08:14 EST, The Security Community said: > >> As I recall, McAfee, et. al. predicted that massive numbers of >> unemployed IT workers would turn to cybercrime. If this ever came to >> pass, it never made the news as far as I can tell. > > How would we tell? >
Look for news stories about unemployed IT workers, I guess. Here's a 2009 story about an angry, unemployed IBMer... http://macombdaily.com/articles/2009/04/03/news/doc49d64ee937c92152544978.txt Unemployed UNC IT worker (October 2009)... http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/998552.html Mostly we find stories about gainfully employed IT workers who are crooks... http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/2-programmers-charged-with-aiding-madoff/ Anyway, it doesn't look like that prediction panned out. If it had, the Nostradumbasses would be patting themselves on the back and predicting more of it for 2010. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
