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Business Software Alliance (BSA) released a cyberterror FUD bomb

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26378.html

Big software pushes hard for national Gestapo

By Thomas C Greene in Washington

Posted: 25/07/2002 at 15:49 GMT

I was puzzled last month when industry lobby the Business Software Alliance (BSA) released a cyberterror FUD bomb. Or, rather, a FUD dud -- a laughably meaningless survey of the opinions of so-called "IT pros" all laboring under the delusion that a deadly national catastrophe by electronic means is just around the corner.

Was that a one-off lapse in judgment, I wondered. A quick and dirty publicity stunt? Why would the BSA suddenly become concerned with cyberterror? Are they developing some software-based national-defense panacea? I found it puzzling enough to solicit readers for insight and theory. I thank everyone who contributed their ideas, but I must say that even with their help I couldn't quite add it all up.

But now the BSA is at it again, repeating its bizarre performance, and it's all suddenly making sense.

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