“Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee an...” — Barton Gellman Quote

“Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.”

“Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.”

“A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.”

“In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.”

“Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.”