$645.00 ...
Thursday, September 10. 2009
... is the amount I am worth in the underground economy, at least according to Symantec's new website on which they advertise (in a somewhat entertaining way) Norton 2010 products. Here are the results when I take the risk assessment:
How they compute these numbers and on what methodology / measurements this is based remains completely unclear, after all it is just some kind of marketing. But the movies are funny, perhaps they can serve as some kind of security awareness campaign. Main drawback is that the website is almost completely built on top of Flash and JavaScript - how about not using all these techniques next time? In some recent measurements we found that the vast majority of web surfers still have an unpatched version of Flash installed, better teach them to regularly update their system next time...
[...] In the underground economy, you're really worth about $645.00. And that's on a good day.
Your entire digital life could go on the auction block for as little as $10.96, whether you like it or not.
How they compute these numbers and on what methodology / measurements this is based remains completely unclear, after all it is just some kind of marketing. But the movies are funny, perhaps they can serve as some kind of security awareness campaign. Main drawback is that the website is almost completely built on top of Flash and JavaScript - how about not using all these techniques next time? In some recent measurements we found that the vast majority of web surfers still have an unpatched version of Flash installed, better teach them to regularly update their system next time...
