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Imagine the real-world equivalent: someone spreads a rumor that the Fifth Avenue Apple store is giving away free iPhones at 6pm. Ten thousand people turn up and block the store, the sidewalk, the roads…

How should a business defend against that without losing legitimate customers?

The answer is probably along the lines of “educate people not to believe rumors” (:: “educate people not to run insecure software”).



> (:: “educate people not to run insecure software”).

Some of these exploits uses zero day attacks, the users cannot do anything.


How does secure software protect you from acknowledging perfectly innocuous requests?


It’s the zombie-botnet-machine owners who need to be running more secure software, not the botnet victims.




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