Rik Ferguson, Director Security Research at Trend Micro, had a great tweet early last Tueday morning calling out potential FUD in an article over at The Metro:
You want to see FUD? This is FUD. Im looking at you M86 http://t.co/9p13bDon
— Rik Ferguson 💯🇺🇦 (@rik_ferguson) November 22, 2011
Given the plethora of FUD-dropping in the article, I could only think of one way to do it justice, and that was a paragraph-by-paragraph check-in via:
Every FUD-check counts!
(it may help to have the article open in another window)
- +1 for heartstring tug (“Children”)
- +1 for immediate FUD in headline
- +1 for Facebook reference in headline
- +1 for mention of Pentagon in sub-head
- +3 for context switch from personal to national scariness
- +1 for Facebook reference in sub-head
- +1 for first use of “cyber”
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mixing.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +3 for context switch to “child pornography” in main article picture caption
- +1 for Facebook reference in caption
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/fbsec.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +3 for context switch back to national scariness
- +1 for use of “cyber”
- +2 for global scariness
- +1 for social-media scariness
- +3 for Facebook (you’re the Mayor!)
- +1 for mentioning Sony attack
- +1 for national scariness
- +1 for mentioning Lockheed attack
- +1 for mobile scariness
- +1 for use of ‘bot’
- +3 for context switch back to personal scariness
- +1 for re-mention of child pornography
- +2 for added scariness of kidnappers
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/gpsfud.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +1 for geolocation scariness
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/compass.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +1 for more geolocation scariness
- +3 for Facebook (you’re the Mayor!)
- +2 for “bedroom”
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/way.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +1 for social-media scariness
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/socialfud.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +3 for Facebook (You’re the Mayor!)
- +3 for coining ‘lifejacking’
- +1 for mobile scariness
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/fbsec.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +2 for Android scariness
- +1 for “Wild West”
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/android.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +1 for mobile/acrobatics tie-in
- +1 for SMS scariness
- +3 for Anonymous reference
- +3 for LulzSec reference
- +3 for context switch back to national scariness
- +1 for Lockheed reference
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/defense.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +1 for “cyber”
- +1 for “cyber”
- +1 for “cyber” (You’re the Mayor!)
- +3 for “cyber”
![](https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cyber.png?w=510&ssl=1)
- +3 for “cyber” (You’re the Mayor!)
- +10 for nuclear scariness
- +10 for “scary”
- +10 for context switch to global “Olympic” scariness
Congratulations! You scored over 100 points! You’re the mayor of FUD-ville!
(Done with homage to @shpantzer‘s SCSOVLF.)