AV is like a coffee filter, without it, you still get a cup of coffee, just a really shitty one.
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Replying to @Bassphiller @da_667
If your coffee filter had holes the size of Luxembourg, and also a side access door with a combination lock with password "1234"... sure. You don't need AV, it doesn't work and makes new problems.
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Replying to @da_667 @Bassphiller
You've lost me, where does code auditing fit in? Here's what I think you're using AV for: Your users download and run random stuff or run attachments. Antivirus does not make that safe. If that's not what you're using it for, then you're just adding attack surface.
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Arguing against AV is like arguing in favor of the pull out method because a condom can break.
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I don't get it, condoms are remarkably effective but Antivirus isn't effective at all. Isn't it more like the exact opposite, arguing for ineffective techniques because there's a non-zero chance it might work, even though you're adding serious risk?
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Condoms also took a few hundred years of R&D to become effective and not increase risk. So, just because AV isn’t there yet, it is invalid? Just because it has flaws, there is no value at all?
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Along those years of research, we explored a lot dead ends, ideas that didn't pan out. There is no way to make the idea "lets blacklist items from an infinite set" work, but we can make whitelisting work.
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