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Information Technology News Microsoft: your children are pirates and proud of it!
Information Technology News Microsoft: your children are pirates and proud of it! | Microsoft: your children are pirates and proud of it! |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Tuesday, 22 July 2008 | |
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Anywhere that kids and technology meet, then piracy is not going to be far behind. That is an undeniable truth. Back in the seventies the technology was tape-to-tape recorders, and music swapping was rife as a result. Funnily enough, there was no huge outcry from the music industry at the time and certainly no concerted effort to sweep those music taping kids and their parents into court to pay for their crimes against rock, pop and disco. Featured Whitepaper
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Referring to an IDC white paper which suggests that 59 percent of key generators and crack tools of the type used by pirates, and readily available from P2P networks, contain either malicious of potentially unwanted software Microsoft warns that there is a "dangerous discrepancy between children's highly developed technology skills and their often naive attitude to the risks they may face online" and refers to a disconnect between tech-savvy and street-savvy as being the online equivalent of "leaving the back gate open to identity theft and viruses that could cripple a home computer and leave families without precious photos, home movies and music files." So what are the figures to back up the 'all your children are pirates' claim? Read on to find out... CONTINUES |
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