Spyware

There's a really fascinating piece up about spyware and the fight against it. Spyware is a huge problem, especially for larger entities. Our school has massive resources tied up in preventing spyware from taking root in the lab computers. They even have a full-time worker dedicated specifically to dealing with it. The only option they've had that works even remotely well is to ghost the entire lab every night, and then they still have occasional issues.



I don't want to sound sanctimonious, but I'm so thankful that I have a mac so that this isn't such a problem yet. I'm sure eventually some idiot will decide that mac users should have to pay as well. But I'm hoping that the time is still long off. It's a testament to our baseness that we do these kinds of things to each other, and I view the people who perpetrate it as low as I do any common criminal.