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It seems ridiculously cheap, relative to payout, to attack financial institutions by joining them as employees. Couple this with the fact that "white collar" cr
by ipnon 6y ago
It seems ridiculously cheap, relative to payout, to attack financial institutions by joining them as employees. Couple this with the fact that "white collar" crimes are punished with relatively lenient sentences.
- closeparen 6y agoWhen IT leadership talks a big game about security, as a skilled practitioner on the ground I still see plenty of opportunities. When you delve into details, a lot of that “serious business regulated entity with compliance auditing requirements” stuff is brain dead. Like, running vulnerability scanners that don’t even speak the same wire protocols as a the applications under test. Enforcing strict ACLs on UIs while it’s trivial to SSH and curl the backend APIs. I sometimes wonder whether accounting is like this too. Is financial audit just as much of a fig leaf? Can a skilled accountant also spot dozens of ways to embezzle?
- ipnon 6y agoWe are truly saved by our better angels. If all people were ruthless economic competitors, and took every efficient financial opportunity available to them, criminal or legal, a cooperative society would be unmaintainable. We should consider ourselves lucky (perhaps blessed) that the anti-social among us are a tail end minority.