This year I have a winning candidate for the best "silly season" remark. The term comes from the british newspaper industry and normally describes the summer months when Parliament is in recess. During that period any rubbish any politician even thinks about hinting at is blown into a story out of all proportion by newspapers starved of all the good parliamentary news and gossip.
In the security industry we have a similar season, the slight problem is that it seems to last twelve months per annum and has just had its peak.
Just before the Christmas break a security consulting group published the Earth-rattling factoid that attacks increase during school and university breaks. Written with suitably strong sentences and catchy phrases it made it sound like years of research were necessary for this amazing conclusion to be reached. What is worse is that the mainstream media picked it up and reported on it.
Yet another chapter in the failures of the security industry to act responsibly.
Posted by arrigo at January 6, 2003 04:01 PM