Joe 7 years ago
Hahaha... From a Google Senior Security guy at KiwiCon... "Antivirus does some useful things, but in reality it is more like a canary in the coal mine. It is worse than that. It's like we are standing around the dead canary saying 'Thank god it inhaled all the poisonous gas',"
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  • Joe 7 years ago
    This fat poisonous bird 😋
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  • Sigg3 7 years ago
    @Ant Clearly said canary. We have Google Chrome Canary though. The plot thickens, let's grill this fat bird!
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  • Ant 7 years ago
    ...the size of the bird was never stated though
    so it could be big enough to consume all the gas ;)
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  • Johnnynull 7 years ago
    Right. "All that" as a coloquialism.
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  • Joe 7 years ago
    Ahh right. Yea I get you now... I'm guessing the statement means they think he's sucked in 'all' the gas whilst they're really still about to die.
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  • Johnnynull 7 years ago
    I guess I'm being overly pedantic (shocker). My quibble is the adjective "all". Antivirus does not "soak up" viruses.
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  • Joe 7 years ago
    I don't think it is a poor analogy. Anti-virus is always behind the curve, It also gives people a false sense of security. Where I work at the moment they have so many tools IPS, IDS, AV, Sandboxing, and it's all just useless. You could easily get in to the company and I have demonstrated it. The boxes are ticked for compliance and that's all that matters with all of these things.
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  • Johnnynull 7 years ago
    Guessing it means that it's (at best) reactive nowadays, not preventative. It's a poor analogy, imo.
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  • Joe 7 years ago
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  • Sigg3 7 years ago
    The analogy doesn't work by itself. What's the context of being grateful it inhaled the gas?
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