Geek speak

This was a particularly informative article for me "Geek speak confuses net users" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4413155.stm) and I was actually confused. It's about internet jargon especially related to security issues, which makes it all the more important to know. But I did discover that 'I don't speak geek' as I only recognised 3 of the 9 terms mentioned in the article (virus, firewall, spam). I knew that 'spyware' and 'rogue dialler' are defenitely bad stuff, though not how bad; I had no idea what 'keylogging' is; I wondered what 'Trojan' war or Homer have to do with computers; and I just thought that 'pharming' and 'phishing' are either a new way of writing or a typo of 'farming' and 'fishing' and still they made no sense to me.

So, I guess this just confirms that in our family, I am the computer geek and my big bro is the computer freak :)

p.s.
call me traditional, but today was defenitely not my defenition of spring weather.

Mai