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Horror Vacui Intra Facinus →

July 30, 2014 by Marc Handelman in Crime, Cybernetic Crime, All is Information, Alternate Attack Analysis, Information Security

Brian Krebs illustrates a proliferation of legal businesses with nefarious polar-opposites as the lead-in to the main topic of that day's posting: An online service that will thoroughly deplete a targeted competitor's advertising budgets. While interesting in-and-of-itself, the topical post contains a sub-plot of existential interest. Curious? Read On.

The fascinating content of Mr. Krebs well-researched and concise post is not the miscreant service he describes in superb detail, but the notion of business/anti-business constructs [a la Matter/Antimatter, if you will...].

With the application of scrutiny (whether cursory or in-depth), researchers can locate exact, crime-laden copies of nearly every legit business or activity existing in the under-belly of our beloved Interweb. This behavior exactly matches the physical world, as the nature of the two opposing antagonists will expand to fill any empty space, vis-à-vis the concept of horror vacui.

July 30, 2014 /Marc Handelman
Crime, Cybernetic Crime, All is Information, Alternate Attack Analysis, Information Security
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