Any security consultants ever lost business over getting hacked themselves?
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Robert Graham wrote:
> Mitnick is a security expert. I don't have much respect for the guy, and his
> reputation is more hype than reality, but he's still an "expert" every much
> so as others who call themselves "security expert".
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> Just because you go around telling people be secure doesn't make you an
> expert. Any dunce can tell you to "safen up" (to quote Homer Simpson). What
> takes expertise is recognizing when marginal costs exceed marginal benefits.
> If inconsequential systems never get hacked, then chances are good that you
> are spending too much securing them. In Mitnick's case, since nothing
> consequential was affected, it means that he's not overspending on securing
> his upstream DNS. The only consequence is reputation loss, although the
> opposite consequence is free publicity, so it may be a net benefit.
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