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To make the analogy more fair, let's say your house (filled with people's personal information) had an unlocked secret entrance way, even though many lock exper
by hudicris 15y ago
To make the analogy more fair, let's say your house (filled with people's personal information) had an unlocked secret entrance way, even though many lock experts say that unlocked entrance ways are generally unsafe. People may or may not be going into your house everyday while you're gone, and using that personal information while everyone remains blissfully unaware. One day, someone comes in and takes all the personal information and publishes it to show how insecure it is.
Yes, the person breaking in may be a jerk, but maybe people will put locks on their doors now.
- phuff 15y agoI don't think that physical locks are much more secure than a reasonably secured apache instance, which is definitely still exploitable, just like the locks on my door are, which I guess is part of why I think saying the analogy to papers on my kitchen table doesn't work rubs me the wrong way. It's _totally_ analagous. There wouldn't be any rebuttal or arguing that LulzSec's work is actually good because it's going to increase security if we were talking about physical break ins to real buildings, even though there are many well known attack vectors on most modern locks.