Food for Thought on McAfee's Blunder

If the pilot has the steak, the co-pilot has the chicken.

You see that way, if there is a problem with one or the other of the meals offered on the plane and one gets sick, the other will be able to fly the plane home.

Last week we saw many companies lose all of their desktop (and in some cases server) computing capacity - stores with their cash registers down (why are they connected to the internet and in need of anti-virus? Different problem) and others lost all their office systems because the company has a corporate license for one anti-virus (McAfee in this case) and that one had a problem. It's not the first time - won't be the last, but it was one of the most devastating.

It's bad enough that they all run Windows - there has to be someone who thinks that having all your eggs in one basket is a bad thing - but having something with life and death control over the running of a computer that auto-updates every day and is enabled on every desktop in a corporation is just plain silly.

Far be it from me to suggest that this is a bad idea.

Hmmm... maybe McAfee (and other vendors of such potentially disastrous updates) should partition their clients into a couple of pools and do different things to each pool.

And if they don't, then I sure do suggest that IT departments purchase two different products and distribute them randomly.

Then two cases of food poisoning from both pilots eating the chicken won't bring the plane down - if you get what I mean. 

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