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I mean, let's address the elephant in the room: there is no such thing as computer security. As we see with new leaks and hacks and vulnerabilities every single
by coldpie 5y ago
I mean, let's address the elephant in the room: there is no such thing as computer security. As we see with new leaks and hacks and vulnerabilities every single week, the idea that a computer that is connected to the Internet can be secure is a joke. The whole industry is built on protocols and tools that assume there will never be any bad actors, and we're reaping the rewards of that now. It will take decades of layering on band-aids to approach anything like security, and more likely we will have to rebuild the entire industry from the ground up without that assumption. Both will take a very long time and a lot of money. Hiring some guy with an infosec cert would not have stopped this attack, because there is no way to stop this kind of attack.
- TameAntelope 5y agoThere are companies that get hacked a lot and there are companies that don't. It is for sure true to say everyone is vulnerable, but it's also true to say that you can reduce your risk without reducing your revenue.
- Aperocky 5y ago> Idea that a computer that is connected to the Internet can be secure is a joke. The whole industry is built on protocols and tools that assume there will never be any bad actors This is just flat out wrong.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoRisk cannot be eliminated but it certainly can be reduced. Also response plans for when something happens can be funded and regularly tested. You can't anticipate every possible successful attack but you can reduce the risk of being unprepared to respond to whatever attack happens.
- mistrial9 5y agothe assumption that there is no security in open protocols is badly misinformed here. "Hiring some guy with an infosec cert would not have stopped this attack, because there is no way to stop this kind of attack." blovation