Re: FTC files complaint against "Bogus Computer Scan Software" makers

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

<Yawn>.  The FTC is an incompetent, ineffective, lazy, clueless ship
of fools.  It has completely failed to do anything meaningful about spam,
spyware, adware, and related forms of abuse.  This latest report is merely
a feeble attempt at positive PR -- and I'm sure some gullible people will
be taken in by it.

But the FTC is hardly alone: every other similar agency worldwide has
failed as well.

The delusional fools who think that law enforcement can or will do
something meaningful about online abuse may safely be ignored, as
they are completely out of touch with reality.  The reality is that no real
help is coming, now or in the future.  There is no value whatsoever in
including these impotent organizations in planning or discussions:
we are on our own, as we have always been.

And that's not an entirely bad thing: we have now, as we have always
had, the collectively ability to deal with problems like this without
any outside help.  It's our own fault if we have failed to promptly and
effectively exercise that ability.

---Rsk
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