Re:Webroot Spy Sweeper Enterprise and Lavasoft too (Score 4, Insightful)

Back in the mainframe days, they were a priesthood--users could only act with the data through the intercession of them and their terminals. The PC changed all that, and they've spent the last couple of decades stuffing the toothpaste back into the tube.

Microsoft has greased the wheels with its exploit ridden, high maintenance software, creating security problems of epic proportion that are helping justify the return to the "glass house" in the eyes of management, who worries about things like HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, EU privacy directives, Gramm Leach Bliley, and all that--and creating a class of well-paid overseers to manage it.

The users are mere pawns in the game.