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ConsortiumInfo: Monocultures and Document formats: Dan’s Bomb Goes Off

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Andy Updegrove
May 24, 2006

“Dan Geer is an extremely well respected security expert. When
he worries about something, people listen.

“One of the things he has worried–and warned–about is the
danger represented by IT ‘monocultures’–the situation that arises
when everyone uses the same software, for example, and therefore
everyone shares the same vulnerability to a computer virus or other
security threat…”


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Andy Updegrove

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