begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:06:53PM -0500: > [snip] > Seriously, hyperbole much? Trillions of dollars? If it was millions, we > would have heard about it.
Not so sure about that. The effects of reporting a trillion dollar loss would be significant. Hell, even a billion-dollar loss would probably be significant enough to keep quiet about. > Hacking is not easy. And once you get access > to the machine, you still need to figure out where the data is, how to > access and change it, additional layers of security, etc. Hacking a bank > without inside help is next to impossible. Well... at least insider knowledge. > You may be able to get personal > info and use that to do a bank scam, but transfering money to another > account? Highly unlikely. Given from what I've heard about banks, they're less secure than they seem. The world of Finance is ... odd. -- Illusions everywhere. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
