---
title: "Conventionality is not morality."
url: https://infosecurity.ch/20090806/conventionality-is-not-morality/
date: 2009-08-06
author: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
language: en
---

# Conventionality is not morality.

During my daily RSS OCD reading I had to deal with [this article](http://threatpost.com/blogs/some-researchers-lack-basic-ethics): it has been written by a “senior anti-virus researcher at [Kaspersky Lab’s](http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11545)“. Talk about personal interest.

I wont comment on the practical implications of useless signature based AV’s and how cyber criminals will never need amateur-ish projects to carry on their malicious tactics.

But what is always interesting is watching the very same people who use billion dollar scare tactics to sell you a perfectly useless piece of software (which will give you a false sense of security, hence will make you more insecure), talking about ethics.