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07-24-2019

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Yeah, so as a long time cyber security person, I have never been impressed with companies like MalwareBytes who profit off the insecurity of Windows.

I'm not accusing any company of wrong doings, but there have been many scenarios in circles of cyber security professionals where antivirus companies conspire (or work) with malware creators to have malware released into the wild and for "an antivirus company" to already have an antiviral update(s) ready.

The entire ecosystem is broken; so personally, I am not impressed with the MalwareBytes story. I do not trust any of these companies, since they are not accountable and transparent to the public.

The real "success story" would be for governments or regulators to mandate that these software companies secure their products and be responsible for consumer losses and damages, or to otherwise regulate these greedy high tech companies who are only concerned with quarterly profit reports to their stockholders. Ditto for the new breed of information brokers like FB.

The entire cybersecurity industry is a "self-licking ice cream cone", where the more malware there is, the more money anti-malware companies make. It's really dystopian.

Soon (not sure the exact time), it will be the same in AI. There will be an entire industry built around securing us from AI, hackers attacking AI, AI gone bad, etc. It's really a dystopian future where tech creates more software which needs "protectors" to protect us from the harm it will do. Meanwhile, the huge tech giants get richer, the land costs rise in high tech areas, etc.

It's corporate greed out of control, really.

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business::isbn::data

Data(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 Data(3pm)

NAME

       Business::ISBN::Data - data pack for Business::ISBN

SYNOPSIS

       see Business::ISBN

DESCRIPTION

       This data is current as of the date in the module version. At that time, the publisher codes  9990000-9999999 or 999000-999999 had not been
       fixed, although they had been proposed. I do not include them in the data. Some regions, including India(93), Gabon(99902), and Congo(99951) have country codes but no publisher codes. They still have entries even though you won't be able to validate any ISBNs assigned in
       those regions.

       Business::ISBN uses this "data pack" to do its work.  You can update Business::ISBN::Data independently of the main module as the various
       ISBN organizations assign new publisher codes.  The ISBN agency lists these data at http://www.isbn-international.org/converter/ranges.htm
       .  It's also available as a javascript file at http://www.isbn-international.org/converter/ranges.js . The make_data.pl program creates the
       meat of this module.

       Note, that as a historical artifact, some countries are actually language areas. For instance, country code 2 is "French", and includes
       several French-speaking countries.

       Simply install this module over the previous version.  The module is a Perl data structure, so you can install it with CPAN.pm, or simply
       copy it to the right location.

       Older versions of this module did not declare a version, and will work with whatever version of Business::ISBN you have despite anything
       the Makefile.PL might say. Some versions tracked the version of Business::ISBN. Starting in October 2008, the version is the date of the
       module update (as YYYYMMDD).

       If you make updates, please send them to me so I can include them in future releases.

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

       This module lives in the Github repository with Business::ISBN:

	       git://github.com/briandfoy/business--isbn.git

AUTHOR

       brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"

       Yakov Shafranovich updated the data in October 2008.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2002-2008, brian d foy, All Rights Reserved.

       You may redistribute this under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.0							    2008-12-05								 Data(3pm)