Baldy’s Paradox

“One of the more interesting tidbits in Symantec’s Global Internet Threat Report (PDF, 105 pages) is the price sheet, which suggests that someone’s ‘full identity’ is worth in the range of $1-$15. Your email password goes for $4-$30 and your bank account might fetch $10-$1000. With those prices, I wonder how often they pay more for the bank account than is actually in it? There’s also an executive summary (PDF, 36 pages).

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SAN FRANCISCO–It turns out al-Qaida’s leader and his cohorts aren’t the biggest threat to our cybersecurity. You are.

Six years ago, Osama bin Laden represented the nightmare scenario for the computer security establishment. But more immediate cyberdangers lurk on the horizon. Experts attending the RSA conference that began here today say it’s you–Mr. & Mrs. Computer User–who keep goofing up.

This is a nice little wake up call for you folks to read, Baldy
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A lot of people have been reporting issues with Ralink (rt61, especially) chipsets and the Gutsy upgrade. Some users are struggling so much that they have gone ahead and reverted to using NDISWrapper and the Windows driver for their Ralink chipsets. Guess what - I’m typing this article in Open Office, on Gutsy using an Edimax wireless card powered by the default driver for RT61PCI with network-manager. That’s right, no compiling, nothing. So why am I not having the same issues? Because I actually have a better grasp of the problem.

Not a problem only with Gutsy but other distros as well, Baldy
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