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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Business origins - MalWareBytes - interesting read Post 303037136 by Neo on Wednesday 24th of July 2019 12:25:20 PM

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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webservice::youtube::user

WebService::YouTube::User(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    WebService::YouTube::User(3pm)

NAME

       WebService::YouTube::User - User class for YouTube.

VERSION

       This document describes WebService::YouTube::User version 1.0.3

SYNOPSIS

	   use WebService::YouTube::User;
	   my $user = WebService::YouTube::User->new( { ... } );

DESCRIPTION

       This is a user class for YouTube.

SUBROUTINES
/METHODS
   new(\%fields)
       Creates and returns a new WebService::YouTube::User object.  %fields can contain parameters enumerated in "ACCESSORS" section.

   ACCESSORS
       about_me
       age
       books
       city
       companies
       country
       currently_on
       favorite_count
       favorite_video_count
       first_name
       friend_count
       friend_count
       gender
       hobbies
       homepage
       hometown
       last_name
       movies
       occupations
       relationship
       user
       video_upload_count
       video_upload_count
       video_watch_count

DIAGNOSTICS

       None.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

       WebService::YouTube::User requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

       WebService::YouTube, Class::Accessor::Fast

INCOMPATIBILITIES

       None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       No bugs have been reported.

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-webservice-youtube@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WebService-YouTube>.  I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of
       progress on your bug as I make changes.

AUTHOR

       Hironori Yoshida <yoshida@cpan.org>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

perl v5.10.1							    2009-01-20					    WebService::YouTube::User(3pm)