Am I the only one to catch these things? Its like a bizarre trend.
From CNN.com:
CNN Money: Survey: Cyber-crime on the rise
CNN Money: Google to offer Web-based hard drive
In an article about Windows Live search engine on CNN.com:
“An ability for users to save their search parameters as macros that can be run to perform the same search in the future. Microsoft said people will also be able to publish their search macros so people with similar interests can use them.”
Ok, I’m not the real expert on these things, but from my observations:
a) Cyber-crime is directly related to the web, because of how porous it is. There is NO true security on the internet, as far as I ever have been able to find. So, putting your data on a web-based hard drive is equivalent to removing any/all security functions.
b) Macros are part of what started part of the whole virus/worm/trojan problem in Windows. Macro viruses were the plague of Office. Now, we are expected to use macros in our internet searches (which in a, above, is already shown to be insecure). An insecure and prone to malicious use medium which uses insecure and prone to malicious use coding!
I really wonder if anyone in the big boy corporations of the computer industry is reading the news. Granted, correlation does not equal causation. But an alarm should be going off in someone’s head.
And yes, I would love for you to prove me wrong!