Slashdot | EC Watching Microsoft Security Moves

This one makes me smile. Over the last few years revenue for Symantec and the other security vendors has grown faster than the problems. It seems clear that they haven’t been getting the job done. And there’s financial incentive for them not to get it done as well.

Many non-technical folks have told me that it doesn’t take much imagination to believe that someone on the payroll of these huge security vendors is writing the viruses. While I don’t totally agree with that I believe that Jonathan Zdziarski of “Ending Spam” had it right. There’s no business model for doing the job too well. He was comparing the difference in accuracy between commercial and OpenSource antispam filters but Jonathan’s statement applies to security products as well.