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A new report from Symantec says that porn sites are actually safer to visit than religious websites. That's good enough for me, I'm off to go practice safe web browsing!
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Well, religion has killed way more people IRL than porn ever did. I guess it follows that porn would be safer on the interwebs too.
Well, religion has killed way more people IRL than porn ever did. I guess it follows that porn would be safer on the interwebs too.
the people there have pre screened themselves for gullibility.
before anyone hops on that good ol fashioned new timey religion bashing... read the actual PDF. it actually does not say that anywhere.
what it DOES say is that there is less incidents of porn sites hosting infections than any other sector... what it does NOT say, nor does it even hint at it, is where they classify religious websites as there are 10 categories (including porn) that they could be under...
but uh.... feel free to twist information to suite your needs there... thats quite alright...i guess....
Not religious, hate it with a passion.
Well, religion has killed way more people IRL than porn ever did. I guess it follows that porn would be safer on the interwebs too.
Actually, secular based philosophies have killed more people than religiously based philosophies ever did.
So, in a sense, the underlying ideology behind porn (which is more compatible with secularism) is more responsible for the deaths of tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP2.HTM
Research Communism responsible for more deaths ect.
If thousands of religion bashing threads have taught me anything, it's that Communism is automatically categorized as a completely legitimate religion as soon as death counts are mentioned. Same goes for other secular philosophies with similar stains on history.Actually, secular based philosophies have killed more people than religiously based philosophies ever did.
So, in a sense, the underlying ideology behind porn (which is more compatible with secularism) is more responsible for the deaths of tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP2.HTM
Research Communism responsible for more deaths ect.
Obvious really - webmasters on religious websites don't have a clue about security. Porn sites have the cash to pay real admin to look after the site.
Many church websites are run by volunteers, and many of them are not the most computer literate. Also, consider the kind of people that visit the websites. How many older people that are likely to visit a religious website have money and are also fairly computer illiterate, especially when it comes to security? The porn sites are in it to make money, and getting a virus is a sure way to lose paying customers so of course they're going to focus on security. It's a simple case of criminals and businesses both doing what they always do: Try for a big and easy payoff while minimizing risk to themselves.
Obvious really - webmasters on religious websites don't have a clue about security. Porn sites have the cash to pay real admin to look after the site.
Story time: (2010) Searching for something unique via Google I got a result on a Catholic Church website. Odd as there was no connection. Clicked on the link to find a dodgy search script which attempted to infect me. So I emailed the church to tell them it was there and offered to help clean it up. Told him where to look. (It was not accessible from the front page of the site, only via Google. Clever little script that built a search result page for the key word I was looking for.)
Amazing thing was, a few days later I then got one of the most abusive emails you have ever seen from this "religious" webmaster. He was now accusing me of infecting the website!! Even threatened me with his "Irish Mafia Friends" and the "Local Authorities".
I emailed him my phone number and told him to call. Then asked him if he ever actually had read his "book" and stories of Good Samaritans and trusting people. Turned out his "mate" had told him I typed my emails too fast for me to be human...
Religious sites have incompetent idiots in charge of them. They trust in their $DEITY$ instead of reading the security manual.
Why would you even post this POS trolling article, Steve? It doesn't ANYWHERE in the PDF state anything about religious sites being less safe than porn sites. The only thing it does tell us is that porn sites are among the safest sites on the web. You just had to throw "religion" in there to get the bashing going. Very mature.
Moreover, religious and ideological sites were found to have
triple the average number of threats per infected site than
adult/pornographic sites. We hypothesize that this is because
pornographic website owners already make money from the
internet and, as a result, have a vested interest in keeping their
sites malware-free its not good for repeat business.