- : Worried about online porn? Don't regulate the net – regulate your kids # excellent @charlesarthur piece http://t.co/GCa8Eo3D #
- : The Interwebs are @aleksk's antfarm once again: Did the Internet make you an #atheist The BBC wants to know… http://t.co/niidNp7s #
- @kashhill @KimZetter Bollocks they do. 1) What is meant by Average? 2) What by cyberespionage? 3) How many take negative days? #
- @kashhill @KimZetter As an industry we need to stop promoting crummy headline stats like that, for our own good. See http://t.co/gkm38EDo #
- @kashhill @KimZetter See also http://t.co/tEa4HLgj – dubious cybercrime stats work against health and innovation in security industry #
- @KimZetter Check out the NYT article for a lesson in how numbers get inflated. #
- @KimZetter And if you check my preso link you will see Gen Keith Alexander pimping his budget by citing McAfee glossy brochures #
- @KimZetter Then Mandiant and @taosecurity should show us the math, and shame on WiReD for taking it at face value and not doing likewise. #
- @LucasErratus I don't doubt they are "real" stats, I doubt their accuracy, relevance, importance and usefulness. Show the math & definitions #
- If it's "unacceptable for Government not to understand how the Internet works" then it is incumbent on industry to not feed them bullshit #
- @LucasErratus @KimZetter @taosecurity Show us the workings, eg: Median of (10,20,500,501,502) = 500 – So how many data points? Mean? SD? #
- @LucasErratus @KimZetter @taosecurity : Come to that: does 1 customer = 1 data point? Or do 100 machines at one customer = 100 data points? #
- @stevelord Hence. My dear boy, hence. #
- @LucasErratus Link me, baby. #report #
- @LucasErratus Report download link 404s – We're sorry, but that page doesn't seem to exist. Let us know about it or browse other areas of th #
- @LucasErratus It gets better: the signup form to download the report will not scroll up on my laptop screen to permit me to hit 'Submit' #
- @LucasErratus Current Google Chrome, Current OSX. MacBook Air 11" http://t.co/8QIz2an0 #
- @LucasErratus Dude, it's a MacBook Air. It's hardly a niche platform. #
- KITTENS! NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW http://t.co/EzFD0oHn #
- @taosecurity @KimZetter @kashhill @mandiant Still some interesting questions to ask, like: what constitutes an incident? #
- @taosecurity @KimZetter @kashhill @mandiant 2) Is this worse than in 2007? Do all incidents demonstrate continued pwnage by 1 group? #
- @taosecurity @KimZetter @mandiant 5) if 458 days / 15 months is a better period, are you not reflecting the security half-life of hardware? #
- @hakmem Regrettably I fear you may be right. HT" @taosecurity #
- @Mandlovesgeeks I could get behind your position were it not for Government bodies seeking to regulate how IT security should work. #
- @taosecurity @KimZetter @kashhill @mandiant 4) got dropped by Tweetdeck, but was: What attacks are we talking about, eg: Malware? Botnets? #
- @KimZetter If you go to a hospital and survey when everyone first got ill, is the longest/most chronic illness a useful metric of health? #
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