Behind the jargon
A strange thing happened over the weekend. Suddenly the blogosphere was awash with pundits speculating on the relative merits of equity stakes, warrants or senior debt as alternatives to the Paulson bailout plan. Then this morning much of the same discussion has made it to the mainstream press.
What is strange here is not what is being debated but that a debate is taking place at all. Subject matter that a week ago was considered so obscure that even the anchors on CNBC would have to feign ignorance so that the 'experts' could explain it to them is now the talk of every water cooler and coffee shop.
So what would it take to make people consider computer security with the same degree of care and attention? Perhaps its best we don't find out.
Comments
Interesting take. Actually, I thought the recent DNS scare would have done the trick to get people interested. No such luck. I guess we're waiting until at least half of websites have a "This site may harm your computer" warning in a Google search for people to wake up.
Posted by: Jonathon | October 3, 2008 1:20 PM