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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Calcuating Loss

From: Jos Osborne <Jos@meltemi.co.uk>
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 09:24:31 EDT

>
>If you see someone complaining about all the money they lost doing what
>they should have been doing all along, I just see spin. And politics.
>
>M

Especially when it's an AV vendor saying "Look, the IT business lost $2.8 gazillion due to their being hit by this worm. If only they'd protected their systems with a reliable anti-virus product we'd all be that much richer. Oh, by the way, wanna buy a reliable anti-virus package...?"

90% Self-serving hype
9% Overblown fear
0.9% "Statistical maths"
0.1% Reality

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