FUDReport.com is a blog about the never ending spewing of Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt. The term FUD was popularly coined by Gene Amdahl, of Amdahl, Inc. referring to the lengths IBM was going to in order to prevent customers from buying from Amdahl.

Sometimes cynical, sometimes satirical, and basically non-partisan (although sometimes one group may seem to stand out more than others). Just our read on what we think the FUD of the day is.

According to Wikipedia, FUD is now often used in non-computer contexts with the same meaning. For example, in politics one side can accuse the other of using FUD to obscure the issues. For example, many critics of George W. Bush accused John Kerry of using a FUD-based campaign in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

According to some commentators, examples of political FUD are: “domino theory,” “electronic Pearl Harbor,” and “weapons of mass destruction”

There is also my personal favorite, the Chewbacca Defense. The Chewbacca defense is a fictional legal strategy used in the South Park episode 27 “Chef Aid”, which premiered on October 7, 1998 as the fourteenth episode of the second season. The aim of the argument is to deliberately confuse the jury. The concept satirized attorney Johnnie Cochran’s closing argument defending O. J. Simpson in his murder trial.

All this amounts to FUD as far as we are concerned, thus we will highlight those things that try to get our “vote” by confusing us, misleading us, or by outright lying to us.

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