An open letter to Enrique Salem, the incoming CEO at Symantec…

Along the way I’ve exposed numerous “experts” who fell for a computer security hoax. My desire to understand why experts get duped led me to pick up Dr. Madeleine L. Van Hecke’s new book on the topic…

Imagine the frustration Georgia’s president must have felt. Russian tanks & bombers are swooping in, but what does the media really care about? “President Saakashvili, is it true the president of Poland agreed to host your website until the cyberattacks subside?”

Way back in 2003, I said I wanted to put Vmyths on trial for its life in 2007. The death of my wife set me back a year, but I’ve finally handed down a verdict…

You’ll find details on the aircraft, tanks, and rifles used in this conflict … yet nothing at all on the cyber-weapons. Wikipedia offers not a single clue about the Kremlin’s computing might, software armaments, nor even a map of the major IP boundaries…

In a physical war, a politician shouts “Christiane Amanpour’s plane landed at the airport, everyone flee for your lives!” In a cyber-war, a coworker shouts “John Markoff’s story just went online, everyone click on the links!” And why don’t we hear stories about, who knows, maybe Georgia’s victorious counter-thrust into Russian IP space where they dropped a Google-bomb on the .ru TLD, or something like that…?

Do you realize the incredible gullibility exploit here? A hostile military could develop a PowerPoint slideshow, mail it to hysterical USAF personnel, and say “please give this widest possible dissemination.” Even if a gullible flyboy finds out he got duped by an enemy military, history predicts he won’t send out an email to retract the slideshow … because it would embarrass him too much to admit “the enemy exploited my hysteria in an official capacity”…

Vmyths has taken on a new look & feel for its main page…