Except its very uncommon to be poisoned or stabbed and very common for IT systems to be hacked, because there's a pretty big incentive to do so (setup a spammin

Except its very uncommon to be poisoned or stabbed and very common for IT systems to be hacked, because there's a pretty big incentive to do so (setup a spamming farm, steal data, enlarge a botnet, script kiddie cred, etc). >Has anybody been personally burned by this? I imagine a lot of devs who follow bad practices cause a lot of havok, but its up to the security and sysadmin team to clean up after them. They may not be fully aware of all their bad practices and a refrain of "Let us be bad, it hasn't caused any problems yet," is short-sighted. >say installing Ubuntu from a website At the very least you have a SSL identified site and published checksum hashes on a separate server. That's a far cry from a random shell script. Installing an OS is a special case anyway, so its not really a good comparison here. edit: typos