From: Pete Herzog (lists@isecom.org)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2006 - 14:46:01 EST
Hi,
I thought some of you might like this even if it's not specifically about
Trusted Computing. I posted it to the front page of ISECOM at
www.isecom.org. We do these things to bring awareness to people on the
over-hyping done in the security industry and to put things to perspective.
Here it is:
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The ISECOM Top 10 Real Computer Crimes for 2007 and Beyond
1. Your computer will probably crash a lot or at least reboot for no
apparent reason but most likely due to some patch you got through an
automated update which you are told to do for security reasons because
apparently security and stability are incompatible.
2. You will misplace, lose, over-write, and delete documents probably
accidentally but you really can't remember if you really had that document
saved or not and maybe it's this one here but you don't know because when
you try to open it you get a CRC error and you'll realize that nobody
warned you that the ever-decreasing life of these huge hard-drives you can
now buy have fallen to just under 2 years.
3. While using emule and bit torrent you think you're being watched by the
MPAA and RIAA and you seriously cut down on your downloading which makes
you re-discover things you downloaded that you never watched or played
before but some of the media files won't play right and you won't know if
it's the codec, the program, or the file so you download more and more
until your ISP jacks you with a huge bill for excessive bandwidth usage.
4. You'll get spyware and adware and everything else just from browsing
distant Korean servers for torrents, swapping files with "friends" you just
met on IM, and accepting SMSes from unknown people. You may also get
chlamydia or worse if you troll seedy places and accept sexual invitations
with as many unknown people as you do electronically so no surprises there.
5. If your phone is also a computer or your TV is also a computer or your
oven is also a computer and they're running some open networking protocol
like Bluetooth all the time which you never read the manual on how to shut
it off, expect that bad people are happy to do bad things to them just like
if you leave kids running around in public places unattended then bad
people may do bad things to them as well with the odds basically being the
same for all of it all happening.
6. You will get emails from your bank or paypal where you have to log in
there to verify a transaction which then by all means you will use the link
in the mail because we all know we don't always bookmark the websites we
use so often in our browser and also because you're just being click-lazy
and so then bad people steal your identity and your credit card numbers and
try to buy stuff and ship it to Indonesia but your bank calls to alert you
that they canceled your card and will send another to you in 3 to 4 weeks
but you trip on the way to the phone and get a nasty bruise on your knee.
7. Your bank will add more small print and find new ways to charge for
internet-enabled things they save money on but they call it a new service
so you pay more for it.
8. The cool new software you buy will ask you for the CD-Key and no matter
how many times and with caps or not that you type it that damn 24-character
code and wait for it to call home the message repeats that it already
exists because some punk copied out of the box in the store for his pirated
version and so you have all the pain and expense of going back to the store
where you end up also buying some USB stuff you didn't need which ends up
not really working right anyway.
9. The sweet girl from procurements with the pink-laced keds gets caught
selling toner cartridges on E-bay which she stole from your office printer
and she tells the boss that she didn't know it was from there because you
gave it to her and when they go to investigate they find some work
documents on your personal USB key drive that you needed to move files to
another computer in a department with a printer that still had toner along
with a file full of MP3s and spreadsheet full of numbers you'd been toying
with to see if it's feasible to start your own competing business.
10. You're new video and tv-capable mobile phone will have a feature to
download certain programs and ringtones wirelessly but you don't get a
chance to try it because someone steals it off the conveyor belt at the
airport security checkpoint.
Peace in 2007!
-pete.
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