Last week, Security Software vendor McAfee released a database update containing a false positive that led to Windows crashes.
Soon enough, emails, tweets and other headlines were laughing at McAfee for “killing PCs around the world”.
It does not surprise me but at the same time I am disappointed by this general reaction of ‘kicking you while [...]

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