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Brent Staples’ Op-Ed piece sums it up nicely:

“Average Americans tend to see the Internet as safer and more secure than it is partly because they operated under a simplified notion of what the Net is.”

Let’s hope MyDoom has tossled a few more folks into awareness of the threats they face. Hope for it, but cover your bets for your own systems and networks just in case. The next threat’s usually only a few net hops away…

The Australian provides an interesting, albeit brief, review of the history of Christ in movies in “Jesus Christ movie star“.

This is all part of the media onslaught leading up to the release later this month of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of Christ“. I’ve had a bit of a glimpse in that my brother has been involved in the production of Passion TV commercials being used by churches to promote interest in the movie (and of course, ultimately, Christianity), but I haven’t yet seen the film itself.

Time, box receipts, and church goers will tell if it lives up to the buzz.