No Ben Affleck in Anti-Virus

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No Ben Affleck in Anti-Virus

By Marty Algire for Fixmestick.com

Ben Affleck produces outstanding heist movies: Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo (well, it’s a type of a heist…). We’re unlikely to ever see an online heist movie out of Affleck though. The same three factors that make Internet security so difficult are what make it so unexciting.

1st Unexciting Factor: Action at a distance

In the old days, Bonnie and Clyde had to actually enter the premises of the bank they were about to rob, how terrifyingly exciting!

Now, some nerd sits on the other side of the planet punching keys, it lacks drama and immediacy.

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This excerpt appears with permission from fixmestick.com.

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