01.25.21

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) in ZDNet is the Norm

Posted in Deception, FUD, GNU/Linux, Security at 11:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: ZDNet continues to emit lots of garbage ‘journalism’, in effect Microsoft PR and what’s known as “black PR” for Linux; just like Bleeping Computer, which ZDNet hired this writer from, there’s no adherence to facts, just smears and innuendo

THE Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) site ZDNet continues to blame on “Linux” unpatched software that has nothing to do with Linux (and is being neglected, not patched by the system’s maintainers). This is part of an ongoing pattern not unique to ZDNet but rather prevalent in ZDNet and Lawrence Abrams’ Bleeping Computer, the site from which ZDNet hired this writer for his FUD skills.

“…the intention or the goal is to promote a very negative stigma which keeps many businesses saddled to NSA back doors.”This latest garbage which they call “news” is more of the same, consistent with a pattern we’ve long witnessed in ZDNet (we didn’t rebut each and every time this was done).

As mentioned several times in the video, the intention or the goal is to promote a very negative stigma which keeps many businesses saddled to NSA back doors. █

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