Michael Gracie » obsolescence http://michaelgracie.com Clever Tagline Unavailable At Publication Time Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:31:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Oh, spyware kits. They’re next to the shaving cream. http://michaelgracie.com/2006/03/25/oh-spyware-kits-theyre-next-to-the-shaving-cream/ http://michaelgracie.com/2006/03/25/oh-spyware-kits-theyre-next-to-the-shaving-cream/#comments Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:01:23 +0000 Michael Gracie http://www.michaelgracie.com/oh-spyware-kits-theyre-next-to-the-shaving-cream/

Or maybe that should be “next to the Zip disks.”

Sophos discovered a spyware kit for sale on a Russian website. Price? Under $20 bucks.

Some look at it as opening up the spyware game to any and every wanna-be malcreant. But since the scripts, etc. contained in the kit will be useless very soon (now that they have been discovered), I see it differently. To me, it is just one more case of buying technology, only to find it’s obsolete the moment you leave the store.

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