Arthur wrote:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57575344-1/intel-reveals-what-happens-in
> -a-single-internet-minute/
Hah! In 1990, I started saying to my friends, "You have to get some
kind of net access so you can do email."
And they replied, "Ewwwww, computers. I hate computers. What a geek
you are!"
Now the same people (well, most of them) say, "What?! You're not on
Facebook, don't do Twitter, don't use YouTube or PayPal, don't shop on
eBay or Amazon? You don't have a smart phone? You don't bank on-line?
What's Usenet News? What is this "text" of which you speak? What a
Luddite you are."
The older ones don't add, "Well, of course you're *old* and slow and
don't like anything new" because, well, they're old, too. The younger
ones think it, though. "Usenet is social media for wrinklies" etc.
Interesting that they (Intel) document only two malicious sources of
traffic: identity theft and botnet infection, both high absolute
incidence but miniscule proportion of the traffic. No break-out,
e.g., of spam from total email or estimate of botnet DDOS traffic.
With that much traffic, reasonable encryption plus stego should make
it easy for all the bad guys who want to coordinate their badness over
the net.
Mutter...
- Mike
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