Blue Boar wrote:
> Any security consultants ever lost business over getting hacked themselves?
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> BB
On occasion I watch people read my gmail account and thinking they rock.
Gadi.
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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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