Re: threats abound for 2010 what shall we do, oh my!

[The Security Community <thesecuritycommunity () gmail com>]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:59 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> 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.

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