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Firewall Wizards: Re: How to Save The World (was: Antivirus vendor conspiracy theories)

Re: How to Save The World (was: Antivirus vendor conspiracy theories)

From: Adam Shostack <adam_at_homeport.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:27:11 -0500

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:52:37PM -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
| Ben Nagy wrote:
| >In any case, changing away from IE is simply not going to happen for many
| >environments, and Desktop Support aren't liable to consider their AV vendor
| >to be the world authority on what browser they should be running.
|
| Isn't this amazing, if you think about it? Enterprise IT managers are
| such freakin' morons that they'd rather pay $50/year/desktop plus

So, I totally agree with what you're saying. But I'm curious: Are
they really morons, or is there a better explanation?

Is it easier to get budget for cleanup than prevention? (Ie, are
their bosses the morons?)

Are they taking kickbacks that affect their decision making
process? (Me, I need more industry t-shirts, because I've been doing
a lot of paining lately, and they make great drop-cloths.)

Adam

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