December 13, 2006
Our First Annual "Top Grinch" Award
As yes, the Grinch. Everybody loves him. After all, how could you not love a green Ebeneezer Scrooge with a cute dog and Boris Karloff's voice, right? He's cranky, he's cantankerous, and he don't take no guff from all those dismal whos down in whoville. In fact, everybody loves the Grinch the so much that we're willing to overlook the whole "trying to steal Christmas" thing. Right? I mean here's a guy who breaks into people's houses, steals presents from their kids, steals their food off the table (trying to implicate Santa in the process,) and tortures a dog (he does - if you don't think so, watch it again and pay attention to what he does to Max.) What a dirtbag! But we love him anyway - probably because he's green and eventually apologizes.
In that spirit, we're naming our first annual "Grinch" award. For context, this is an award presented to someone who tries their best to steal Christmas but who we love anyway despite their "stake of holly through the heart" attitude. This year's contenders are:
-Sophos for announcing video game-blocking software a week before people receive their new games (note that we're not dinging Microsoft for their functionally-equivalent "must be administrator to install software" feature because they didn't actually exploit the holidays to sell it.)
-Panda for their "New vulnerabilities threaten Christmas shoppers" press release.
-CNN for their "Happy new-year, have some cyber-warfare" story.
-Red Orbit for their "Online Shoppers Need to Be More Secure" story.
-ComputerActive for their "New PCs ripe for Christmas hackers" story
And the winner is (envelope please)...
Panda! Because that mascot of their in the system tray is so damn cute and cuddly-looking that we all love them anyway, even though they did try to exploit the holiday by using it as a draw for a press release on vulnerabilities, and telling us all that we're all going to get some spiffy new fraud for Christmas unless we buckle down (implication: unless we use their product.)
Posted by Ed at December 13, 2006 12:52 PM | TrackBackdec 13th? that's like a week ago!