Re:Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider
by Bartweiss on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:36AM
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The whole tone of the thing was definitely "Your employees hate you, the darknet is scary, you don't understand technology so pay us!"
Like, I get that "disgruntled employee" is less dangerous than "disgruntled employee with expert guidance", but using Tor is already evidence of sophistication. There was nothing stopping these people from going to the library and posting on a normal internet forum, even ten years ago.
Similarly, people stealing all your user information in a movie-style hacker coup is just not that common. Someone flipping a circuit breaker and costing you a bunch of revenue is infinitely more likely, but that's not the headline here because there's no expensive consulting fix for that.
Like, I get that "disgruntled employee" is less dangerous than "disgruntled employee with expert guidance", but using Tor is already evidence of sophistication. There was nothing stopping these people from going to the library and posting on a normal internet forum, even ten years ago.
Similarly, people stealing all your user information in a movie-style hacker coup is just not that common. Someone flipping a circuit breaker and costing you a bunch of revenue is infinitely more likely, but that's not the headline here because there's no expensive consulting fix for that.