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> If thrill-seeking adolescents can compromise your systems, you deserve to be out of business. So, literally everyone deserves to be out of business? I am not
by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> If thrill-seeking adolescents can compromise your systems, you deserve to be out of business.
So, literally everyone deserves to be out of business? I am not aware of any major software company that has at all times been invulnerable to thrill-seeking adolescents.
Perhaps we should coin a new law. The law concerns a statement of the form: "If X, you deserve to be out of business." The law is that the statement is generally false.
- omeid2 8y ago> So, literally everyone deserves to be out of business? No. "If X, you deserve Y" is a figure of speech which means Y is a reasonable consequence of X. Just Desert.[0] However, "if you can't do _basic security_, you should be out of business", I mean that one in the literal sense of it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_(philosophy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_(philosophy)
- plankers 8y ago>However, "if you can't do _basic security_, you should be out of business", I mean that one in the literal sense of it. Tell that to Equifax.
- jjoonathan 8y agoAre you saying they shouldn't go out of business? Because they should -- they just won't, because we have a system that enables them.
- plankers 8y agoNo, I agree with you.