IP: it's time the media started labeling these viruses correctly!

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:50:07 -0800
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu (Dave Farber), neumann@csl.sri.com
>From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
>Subject: it's time the media started labeling these viruses correctly!
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>The media didn't call the World Trade Towers bomb, "the Ryder Truck bomb."
>They didn't call the Unibomber bombs, "US Postal Service bombs."
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>They should stop mislabeling computer viruses by their *innocent* carrier
>-- the Internet.
>
>They should start labeling them what they are: "Microsoft Outlook Express
>virus" or "Microsoft Explorer virus" or "Microsoft Word macro virus
>(reputedly the single largest source of viruses for years!)."
>
>Or more briefly -- and accurately -- just call each one, "the latest
>Microsoft virus."
>
>Let's ask the major media, below, for some *truth* in labeling -- giving
>"credit" where credit really is due.  Let's ask them to stop shooting the
>messenger, and start naming the real origin -- the errors and dangers that
>Microsoft has built into its products for *years*.
>
>CNN:  http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
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>CNNfn:  http://cnnfn.com/resources/email.html
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>ABC:  http://abcnews.go.com/service/Help/abc_contactus.html
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>CNBC:  http://www.cnbc.com/misc/feedback.asp
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>CBS:  http://cbsnews.cbs.com/ and click on "Feedback" in the lefthand column
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>NBC:  Nightly News, email to:  nightly@nbc.com
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>Fox: News Channel, email to:  comments@foxnews.com
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>--jim, Jim Warren; jwarren@well.com
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>[self-inflating puff: Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award, Playboy Foundation;
>Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (in its first year);
>James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award, Soc.of Prof.Journalists-Nor.Calif
>founded InfoWorld; the Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conferences; etc etc etc.]