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Agreed. And my earlier posts did discount (I was hoping someone would bring it up...) the psychopath factor -- there are some people who will expend outrageous effort -- far more than they would expend doing 'honest work' -- to injure some other party. The cartoon "super villain" as it were.
I think anyone who participates in this discussion has disqualified themselves from ever working in the field (which is in itself a sad commentary on the negative effects of paranoia ... you really *do* want clever people thinking hard day and night on ways to break your system, because The Bad Guys sure the heck are!)
Actually people have been consulting with the "dark side" for a long time. Some get plea bargains to do this sort of "public service" work. At some...
The point I was making (all along) was: Even though the K5SSS-N1GAK conspiracy have stolen all of Barb's pin and egg money and esconsed ourselves in the Amazon rainforest, it is the poor *bank* whose credentials we stole that will end up being out the money, not Barb and a million other denmothers around the country. That this cost gets divided up and spread among all consumers is a Sad Fact of Life.
I would rather suffer my fractional part of the total losses in the system, than see some single person bear their entire loss -- maybe that makes me a socialist.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Computer software consists of only two components: ones and zeros, in roughly equal proportions. All that is required is to sort them into the correct order.
message values There is a compromise: hire two new security departments that are charged with finding attacks and developing countermeasures but without...