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IBM fighting evil mutants?

By Peter Nowak, CBCNews.ca

From an IBM press release, sent out today:

According to a new security report from IBMs X-Force security team, an organized criminal network is behind a staggering rise in the sophistication of attacks on computers worldwide. By attacking computer users Web browsers, cyber-criminals are laying siege to the Internet's gateway, and are now stealing the identities of consumers at a rate never before seen on the Internet. IBM X-Force believes this criminal effort will result in thousands of additional attacks in 2008.

It's a pretty standard warning that we've heard seemingly dozens of times already from every other tech company that provides some sort of security products and services. But it's not the message itself that's notable, it's who is behind it: IBM's X-Force.

Is this the same group of militant superheroes led by the mysterious mutant Cable? If so, shouldn't the team be concentrating on its real foe, the Mutant Liberation Front, rather than simple cyber-criminals? Aren't the telepathic powers of Stryfe a much bigger threat? Or is the name just a coincidence that has inspired a completely silly blog post?

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Losfer

Dartmouth

I freakin lol'd.

This is the greatest blog entry I've ever read on this site.

Posted February 12, 2008 03:14 PM

Dwight Williams

Ottawa

Hello, calling the Marvel Comics Legal Department! :-)

Posted February 12, 2008 04:05 PM

mt

Ottawa

Let me get this straight ... you've posted this, not to inform people of IBM's security report (which, granted, is pretty boring), but solely to mock the name of the team that wrote it? If you are that hard-up for interesting things to blog about, I suggest you take a look at the CBC's Technology and Science section - there's lots of great things to talk about there!

Posted February 13, 2008 08:34 AM

Garet

Winnipeg

I think it's awesome he posted just to make fun of the name.

Posted February 13, 2008 02:05 PM

Garet

Winnipeg

Cable's team was X-Factor. If the entire point of the blog is to post and make fun of the name, the 10 seconds of effort for fact checking should have been taken imo.

[Editor's note: I'm not sure where you're getting that information from. Cable took over and led the New Mutants, who were rechristened X-Force. X-Factor started as the five original X-Men - according to the Marvel website, Cable has never been a member. If you click on the "militant superheroes" link above it takes you to the Marvel page, which has a cover shot of X-Force fronted by the man himself, Cable.]

Posted February 14, 2008 04:52 PM

Tyler

Yeah, i actually own the issues where the "New Mutants" became "X-Force" under Cable's leadership to be a more pro-active blahblahblahblah. Point is, the post's right. :) Cable led and then ditched X-Force.

Posted February 17, 2008 01:03 AM

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