The chronicles of McAfee’s shoddy security updates have been well chronicled.  If you haven’t been following this, let me summarize the situation for you. McAfee sent out a security update that led millions of uninfected machines to think they were infected leading McAfee to commit hara-kiri on themselves.

Clearly, this did not make any of the impacted customers happy. But what’s even more interesting is that McAfee blamed this on broken quality assurance processes. They changed their testing process to make it less rigorous. Now, at any other time this may have been fine. When this happens during the time that Toyota is subject to the largest recall of its history due to shoddy testing and their band image is taking a beating, it seems brain dead to roll out a untested, less rigorous QA process.

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