Religious Sites Have More Trojans Than Porn Sites

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16 points·recycleme··7 comments

The content is much less sensational than the headline. Porn sites were ranked the 10th content category in order of malware infections detected by Symmantec, behind blogs, shopping, business, tech news, music sites, and others. Turns out porn site operators, being popular commercial services, do invest in security. The headline could as easily have said "Blogs Have More Trojans Than Porn Sites". That said, don't let that deter anyone from an opportunity to disparage religion.

I dunno, if you ask the mythical non technical person they're probably more likely to say they'll trust a religious site over a blog.

I think it's a frequent misconception that most malware is something people put on their own websites just to be dicks/get money from it. More people are likely to say bloggers will be dicks than religious organisations.

The article states plainly that this is likely due to heavy investment from the porn industry to protect their revenue streams. Religious organizations aren't typically for-profit ventures, so with less at stake doesn't this kinda make sense? Or is this just some excuse to draw some value judgment between porn and God?

Definitely the latter.

"Religious organizations aren't typically for-profit ventures". Most religions organizations I know are for-profit. Just saying.

Try not to lose perspective of the less technically inclined end-users. We might not be the target audience of an article like this, but perhaps the layperson surfing the Internet wouldn't realize how relatively dangerous browsing a religious website might be to their computer.

Does that mean it shouldn't have been posted here? Probably.

Headline bait, nothing more.

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