Today’s interesting reading

Story of a hijack -real life spyware story.

The clueless users who refuse to upgrade -interesting article, but if Microsoft really were to quit supporting older software wouldn’t the howls of “forced upgrading” be ten times louder than this?

Maybe I should get some of these and make everyone hang them in their offices?

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