New elective surgery to make facial recognition technology obsolete! No – just kidding – but imagine if there was such a thing? All that money sunk into the video cameras and software – poof gone. It would be gone because the taxpayers simply would not pay for such an ineffective system. It wouldn't work.
So why are you paying for Antivirus software? Does it even work? Any self-respecting virus writer (hacker) changes their “face” every time they create a new virus to spread. And guess what? Almost every antivirus vendor out there has “facial recognition” software. What this means is they check to see if the code looks like an already identified piece of bad code.
If we are to combat the enemy (computer viruses), we've got to eliminate our vulnerabilities. The operating system manufacturers are always hard at work eliminating vulnerabilities proactively as well as reactively. The message: take the nectar they give you and apply it liberally to your OS. It will make you much more resilient to attacks and will probably keep your machine working better.
Now, a caveat – sometimes they make mistakes and blow stuff up, but that's rare. The same argument can be made about whether you should wear a seat belt or not – the odds are for the seat belt in the same way as the odds are for patching regularly.The following article is what got me long winded this crisp Tuesday morning.
- Christian Jensen, VP, Technology for Tabrio. -end-
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