Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Sat, 05 Feb 2005

Rant

So I'm a Macintosh user. I get tons of spam, a big chunk of it from zombie PCs. I can live with that. My spam filter works OK. But now I find that some rapidly spreading spyware takes over the screen of the PC it's installed on and displays my site, www.exampler.com/testing-com. I suppose the spyware authors were testing their program and "testing.com" came to mind.

Here I am, having to actively fend off outraged PC owners even though I paid extra money to avoid sharing their wretched, spyware-infested, decent-shell-lacking, backslashian lives.

Classic market failure. A negative externality. Grr.

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