It's "particularly pernicious because it targets the kind of device that's difficult to defend," he told me.
Going through the trash is simply the first step in an increasingly pernicious system that targets the innocent as well as the guilty.
This targeting of a corporation for ideological reasons by a state actor should not be viewed as an anomaly; rather it is best seen as the harbinger of a new era of particularly pernicious cyber hostilities targeting businesses.
Some companies now require employees to shoulder what were previously employer responsibilities (such as national insurance, pensions and sick pay) and be subject to pernicious performance management targets and monitoring.
Any anti-Muslim discrimination is detestable, but it is especially pernicious when it targets students in our public schools, which should be safe havens for students of all faiths, and those of none.
"We are faced with a crisis concerning the use of data, the manipulation of our data, and the targeting of pernicious views," the DCMS committee warns.
The Guttmacher Institute's Heather Boonstra, who conducted an analysis of insurance coverage of abortion, called the Hyde Amendment "a pernicious law that explicitly targets the poorest and most vulnerable women".
Therefore, to improve the prognosis of patients with this pernicious disease, identification of targets for early detection of ovarian cancer is critical.
When psychologists and therapists meet nowadays, the talk is often less about work and more about who's just resigned, the latest edict about time limits and targets, and the pernicious market culture that is eroding what we do.
Sadly, far too many fail to do so because they are so busy chasing those pernicious financial and other government targets, and passing on to frontline staff some of the work involved.
