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Then god seperated the state from the church
Secularization
Issues of their times
Jehovah's Witlesses
Christianity
Science
Woman
Overton Window
Malcolm X
We're not burning witches anymore, so we are secular
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Saying that you don't need antivirus because you're good at avoiding malware is like saying you don't need a seat belt because you're a good driver.
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Malware is one of the hotbeds of modern discourse and a perfect opportunity to prove that just because we're not burning witches anymore we are still equally as uninformed as the people were back in the day, just with different things. Malware is a type of computer program that performs malicious actions (“malicious software”) on the user's system, typically for financial gain of the malware author. While purely destructive malware was quite widespread back in the days, these days purely destructive attacks are usually targeted attacks against companies to hurt their business as there is little benefit to be gained from hurting an individual in the same manner. Normally, though, modern malware consists mostly of Infostealers (exfiltrates login credentials stored on the device to enable hackers to hijack the victim's user accounts), Adware (clutters the device with ads to generate ad revenue for the attacker, also good for acquiring and then selling userdata, think of spyware) and Ransomware that holds the filesystem hostage to demand ransom. The methods vary, some software functions as a remote access tool for hackers to infiltrate the system, a 'Trojan' is any kind of malware that disguises itself as a legitimate piece of software the user may actually intent to install, many Zero-Days exploit software vulnerabilities already present on the system to install without (much) user interaction.