Re:Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests
by wlesieutre on Friday November 30, 2018 @02:20PM
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And it's not like I'm advocating that every single company needs bulletproof security that can stand up to nation-state adversaries with budgets bigger that the company, I agree with GP that it just wouldn't be economical.
To stretch the car/driver analogy, you could limit all cars to 10 mph so that they can stop fast enough when a deer runs into the road unexpectedly, but that's probably not worth the tradeoff.
Pedestrians, on the other hand, are a predictable fact of life that you need to deal with when you get in a car. So are bad people on the internet. If you put something on an internet connection and aren't constantly aware of that, you should not be putting it on the internet.
To stretch the car/driver analogy, you could limit all cars to 10 mph so that they can stop fast enough when a deer runs into the road unexpectedly, but that's probably not worth the tradeoff.
Pedestrians, on the other hand, are a predictable fact of life that you need to deal with when you get in a car. So are bad people on the internet. If you put something on an internet connection and aren't constantly aware of that, you should not be putting it on the internet.