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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2017, 12:09:10 AM »
Some folks have also found out that it's not nice to p... of The Donald. :)
After all, he will soon be the President. Tweet, tweet, tweet. :)
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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2017, 01:10:29 AM »
And I agree with RejZoR as well,

But ( as a last political statement ) I can understand the worries from the Chech people about recent Eastern ( European ) and Western ( American ) deverlopments :-\

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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2017, 08:20:13 AM »
Hi, I agree this was little bit over the line from our marketing team and we are pulling the toaster down. Thanks for raising this issue to us.

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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2017, 08:27:16 AM »
Good business practice is to stay away from politics. Just ignore them entirely even if people ask you about it. I've seen people go batshit insane if anyone just dares to mention support of Donald Trump. And all this even before he actually and officially became president and actually did something bad. People are just going crazy for no reason. And when you divide your userbase from 100% down to 50% because some people don't like one or another candidate, you're only doing harm to your business. So, best way is to just avoid it entirely.
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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2017, 08:35:50 AM »
Good business practice is to stay away from politics. Just ignore them entirely even if people ask you about it. [...] And when you divide your userbase from 100% down to 50% because some people don't like one or another candidate, you're only doing harm to your business. So, best way is to just avoid it entirely.
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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2017, 10:44:46 AM »
This really feels totally out of place, especially if users get a popup about it. It's not security related in any way.

In the contrary - such behaviour ist highly security related as it compromises the security software itself.
If this should be tolerated, we will be floated with nonsense & hoaxes in the future. And no one will extract important news  >:(
The main problem is NOT politics yes/no but unrelated issues for security themes ...
« Last Edit: January 18, 2017, 10:48:49 AM by stibi »

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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2017, 10:54:38 AM »
When it comes to (computer) security/privacy, you can't get by politics.
Politicians make rules/laws that have influence on security/privacy.

e.g.
Some are trying force software makers to have a back-door in their applications so governmental instances (police, FBI, CIA, NSA, BVD, Cheka, NKGB, MGB, etc) can see what you are doing.
If governmental instances can spy on you, so can the bad guys.
It is a huge security risk.

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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2017, 07:59:44 PM »
Hi Eddy,

You can discuss anything technically involved here. How to detect governmental trojans for instance or obstacles that hinder freedom of expression. That is all OK and very much what an av vendor should do, but you should abstain from politics as such and not add to the controversy.

Yes discuss whether there is a bug in Whatsapp and what is the implication for the users. OK to discuss whether outsourcing and going to the cloud is bad for governmental platforms and to add to info data breaches.

Discuss the latest rootkit detection and removal. All perfectly OK, but refrain from profiling what global politician has the best hack team and why, that is just being irrational. As irrational as the discussion whether the Easter Bunny is real or part of mythology? Here on the forums, we call this procedure - keep on-topic or not.

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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2017, 08:13:10 PM »
Not sure if the Easter Bunny exists, but the Playboy Bunnies do ;D

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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2017, 08:28:25 PM »
Not sure if the Easter Bunny exists, but the Playboy Bunnies do ;D

But, they aren't real.  A lot of them have plastic parts. ;D
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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #25 on: January 19, 2017, 12:36:28 AM »
Hi Gopher John

Didn't you know, that led by Santa Claus, the Guardians include the Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny, and the Sandman.
They all look for and find easter eggs in software, bugs and backdoors.

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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2017, 01:04:23 AM »
Hi Gopher John

Didn't you know, that led by Santa Claus, the Guardians include the Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny, and the Sandman.
They all look for and find easter eggs in software, bugs and backdoors.

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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2017, 03:24:22 AM »
Especially when most people leave all the doors (and windows) unlocked, usually open at that.
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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2017, 12:00:47 PM »
Don't forget to also protect this door:
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Re: So now you bug me with pop ups about politics? Disgraceful
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2017, 02:41:22 PM »
Don't forget to also protect this door:


I think we are drifting too far from the core issue of this topic.
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