Other than the lives ended and physical peril, what is the distinction between a Muslim fanatic — and a cyber terrorist who targets Microsoft? Both have the objective to influence those to adopt certain beliefs (as they understand them). The former, among other things, wants you to eschew Hollywood’s values and other cultural comforts intrinsic to the American Way. The latter, using tools of the hacker snipe Microsoft’s Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, and the Windows OS. One fights in the name of Allah and the other promotes the religion of Linux, Sun Micro or Open Source. Both would like to re-invent the system with the thinking that THEY know which values are best for you or I. The truth is neither computing platform is or deserves to be better or worse than the other and each is just as vulnerable. Microsoft gets targeted and we pay a defensive price for this. Next time you hear an expert recommend dumping your IE Browser for Mozilla FireFox because you’re weary from the virus and spam just realize that in so doing the bad guys score.