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Anti-Virus Program Makes Joe Millions! | Halt and Catch Fire

Halt & Catch Fire4:43

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Sir, it's already been three hours. I suggest you make an appointment and come back at a more reasonable time.

Hey, I was wondering how long you'd wait. I'm surprised, Joe. You are persistent; I'll give you that much.

Uh, I wanted to show you something. [Applause]

It's after my time at Cardiff. I went away; I decided I should do things differently, operate from a place of total authenticity, be open, be human, do the right thing. But the truth is, no one else made that pact with themselves, so why should I?

What is this? Damn it, your computer's now infected with the virus—the same one that took down West Group. It's a malignant fetch program, and it will spread from this box to every other networked computer in your organization.

Oh my God, I've been calling scared of security.

You want security? Why? Because you don't trust me? You don't know what I'll do. Who knows what I'll do when there's no trust? You're vulnerable. Just because you play by the rules doesn't mean anyone else will.

So what should you do? You should protect yourself, build a wall. Not like that, like this.

Do you know what a vaccine is? It's not medicine; it's a little bit of the virus. You take a little bit of something bad so you can never be hurt like that again.

Check it out.

Is it—how'd you do that?

With an antidote to the poison. Sure, this program only protects your machine from this specific virus, but the real product here is security—a shield against those who would hurt you, perhaps because of their own carelessness or simply because they want to destroy you.

And after the national exposure, what happened at West Group? Entire organizations are going to be ravenous for this. The real security is trusting no one.

And you came up with this all on your own?

Hello, Gordon, it's me.

Hey, create the sickness, sell the cure.

What?

Create the sickness, sell the cure.

You remember when you came over to my place?

I can't talk right now, Joe.

No, no, I took your advice, and I'd turn this into something good—really good.

That's great; I'm glad. But look, I got to go.

No, no, you got to hear me out. You'll be glad you did. We should celebrate, Gordon. We've got an incredible opportunity.

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about you and me together, partnering again.

What are you doing right now? We got to talk this through. I'll come over.

Look, I can't do this anymore. Don and I are moving to California.

Great! We can do this in California. In fact, we should.

I'm going to work for Mutiny.

I need to focus on my family right now.

You're going to work for Mutiny?

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