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> Cliff Stoll was an unwelcome demonstration that not all adults are as clueless as they appear to disaffected, smarter-than-thou teenagers. One of the most im

> Cliff Stoll was an unwelcome demonstration that not all adults are as clueless as they appear to disaffected, smarter-than-thou teenagers. One of the most important things people underestimate is just how powerful a group of “average” people working 9-5 for years if they get you in their cross hairs. You just have to mess up once, get lazy once, make a wrong assumption once. Meanwhile, they only have to be right once.

Solvency 3y ago
What people underestimate this? Who are you even talking about?
- efnx 3y ago
  I think they are referring to hackers. So - as a hacker you only need to slip up once to possibly be found by a group of average folks working 9-5 to catch you.