Comments on: Computer crime costs $67 billion, FBI says

Dealing with viruses, spyware, PC theft and other digital crimes adds up to a hefty total for businesses.

[Terry Murphy]

OK kids...

Get your total cost of ownership scorecards out, your calculator
warmed up and ready, and start adding.

And by "kids," what I really mean is corporate IT management; to
the extent that IT and management can be used in the same
sentence when accounting for a genuine contribution towards
overall company interests.

[Anon-Y-mous]

Almost the amount MSFT makes EACH YEAR selling you buggy software

It's odd that it costs everyone $67 billion and Microsoft makes almost that much each year selling you their software that *CAUSES* this cost of $67 Billion.

About time to make MSFT pay $1 billion PER VIRUS INCIDENT or exposed vulnerability *directly* into the national treasury. That would at least offset the cost to the country and make them more responsible.

If a bank left their door unlocked, their cameras off, and your safedeposit box open overnight and someone stole it, do you think YOU should be paying for their mistake? I think not. The bank should pay ALL clients for their mistakes. Same rules should apply to software.

[iqula]

Why the world puts up with all this? Rather just use a free online desktop

I cannot understand why we put up with this and having to download and update and reboot every time we connect to the net, the online desktop offered free at http://www.cosmopod.com does away with all this can someone now give them the $67 billion so they can prosper.

[rcrusoe]

For $67 Billion you'd think ...

that people would abandon Windows for a more secure OS like
Linux or OS X. But very, very few will.

Just goes to show you that P.T. Barum was right: "There's a
sucker born every minute".

[Iohagh]

Billions in Crime Need A Fast Block

I hear that there is a patent on Single Use Credit Card Number ID in the USA and whomever uses that is going to really grow fast if they have the right marketing plan in the US because the US FFIEC is by fiat requiring that everyone use 4 factor authentication that leads to that product, a single use ID either in tokens or in offline devices. Basically the time is now and we the consumers are watching.