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A lot of malicious software is being made these days, sometimes by the biggest tech companies in the world, but the word "malware" isn't being used to describe it anymore.

Most proprietary software these days has a bit of maliciousness baked in, so has it become too common to deserve a special term? Is "malware" a term from the innocent times?

Similarly, "spyware". All Big Tech companies make spyware, no exceptions.

We need these terms back in mainstream tech reporting.

#malware #spyware