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Tragic Typos
How can anyone take this seriously?
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I agree. The standards of scare-mongering has reached an all time low.
I think it's because in the past 10 years, the public ate everything the media and governments threw at them, from "uh oh... Saddam has nucular (sic) to wipe out us amreekans" to "we buried OBL at sea to respect Islamic tradition".
The surprisingly gullible levels of the general public in the west in the end dulled their governments and media creativity in concocting new scary stories about muzzlem threats.
Really, I think even McCarthyism during the communists scare in the 1950s were more convincing.
This latest comedy only shows that the IT industry now wants some slice of the terrorists cake, after mainly the defense and security industries took home trillions of dollars in governments and private contracts from around the world in the past decade.
Time to buy some McAfee shares anyone?