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Diary of a Senior Editor: Symantec Knows Who Butters Their Bread

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 22, 2005

“It’s a poorly kept secret that Cincinatti Microwave, best known
for making radar detectors Back In The Day, also manufactured a lot
of the radar guns used by police. It was thus in their best
interests to keep making better radar detectors, which encouraged
police to buy better guns, and speeders to buy better detectors to
detect the new guns. It’s kind of like supplying the weapons to
both sides of a civil war at a handy profit.

“Well, Cincinatti Microwave is no more, but Symantec seems to
have discovered a similar type of logic…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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