Thursday·02·March·2006
Trojans must stay out //at 02:32 //by abe
On Heise’s security site HeiSec, Microsoft is advertising (in German) with a Flash animation of a rolling, black horse approaching the reader. Then suddenly a red gate closes and a text apprears:
Trojans must stay out.
If we translate this back to ancient greek history, it would say:
Microsofties must stay out
since Trojans were the inhabitants of Troy (German: Troja) and in the horse were the Greek aggressors. So I strongly agree. ;-)
I really hate it, if people just reverse the meaning of something by abbreviating it (here by turning the adjective into a noun). And then not noticing it. The term Trojan Horse in computing is just one (unfortunately) often seen example…
But no wonder that Microsoft doesn’t care about such things. They care
about so less (e.g. stable software, secure operating systems, users,
administrators, trust, etc.) except keeping their monopoly, making
money and making even more money.
Tagged as: Fläsch, Greek History, Heise, Microsoft, Monopol, Sarcasm, Trojan Horse, Trojans
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