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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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Business::PayPal::API::VoidRequest(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Business::PayPal::API::VoidRequest(3pm)

NAME

       Business::PayPal::API::VoidRequest - PayPal VoidRequest API

SYNOPSIS

	 use Business::PayPal::API::VoidRequest;

	 ## see Business::PayPal::API documentation for parameters
	 my $pp = new Business::PayPal::API::VoidRequest ( ... );

	 my %response = $pp->DoVoidRequest( AuthorizationID => $transid
					    Note	    => "Please come again!" );

DESCRIPTION

       Business::PayPal::API::VoidRequest implements PayPal's VoidRequest API using SOAP::Lite to make direct API calls to PayPal's SOAP API
       server. It also implements support for testing via PayPal's sandbox. Please see Business::PayPal::API for details on using the PayPal
       sandbox.

   DoVoidRequest
       Implements PayPal's DoVoidRequest API call. Supported parameters include:

	 AuthorizationID
	 Note

       The AuthorizationID is the original ID. Not a subsequent ID from a ReAuthorizationRequest. The note is a 255 character message for whatever
       purpose you deem fit.

       Returns a hash containing the results of the transaction. The Ack element is likely the only useful return value at the time of this
       revision (the Nov. 2005 errata to the Web Services API indicates that the documented fields 'AuthorizationID', 'GrossAmount', etc. are not
       returned with this API call).

       Example:

	 my %resp = $pp->DoVoidRequest( AuthorizationID => $trans_id,
					Note		=> 'Sorry about that.' );

	 unless( $resp{Ack} !~ /Success/ ) {
	     for my $error ( @{$response{Errors}} ) {
		 warn "Error: " . $error->{LongMessage} . "
";
	     }
	 }

   ERROR HANDLING
       See the ERROR HANDLING section of Business::PayPal::API for information on handling errors.

   EXPORT
       None by default.

SEE ALSO

       <https://developer.paypal.com/en_US/pdf/PP_APIReference.pdf>

AUTHOR

       Danny Hembree <danny@dynamical.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2006 by Danny Hembree

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
       at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.14.2							    2009-12-07				   Business::PayPal::API::VoidRequest(3pm)