Re:U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cy...
by gruez on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:30AM
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>A better analogy would be, if you were a company selling doors - after a string of break-ins involving some group casually walking through your products like they weren't there, somebody would eventually start asking about your responsibility.
Actually most locks are susceptible to being picked (ie. a known exploit), so what you're describing is already the case, minus the lawsuits.
Re:U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cy...
by ratww on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:56AM
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Locks being susceptible to lock picking actually turns into a feature when, for example, you're locked out or lose your keys: you just call a locksmith and they pick it for you.
There's no perfect security in the real world.
Re:U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cy...
by the-dude on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:57AM
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Windows instead of doors would have worked just as well.
Re:U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cy...
by apercu on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:12AM
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Cyber Insurance is a huge growing sector in Toronto at least, and I worked on strategy for a "startup" in the space last summer.
Re:U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cy...
by jimmy2020 on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:58AM
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You can't sell doors unless there's clear low enforcement that prohibited criminal activities. You need an environment to operate.
Re:U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cy...
by jimmy2020 on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:05AM
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> Portcullises fortified the entrances to many medieval castles, securely closing off the castle during time of attack or siege.
Is the US in a state of war with China? Do we need medieval tactics to deal with cyber security? Why insisting on blaming the victim.
(Maybe "cyber insurance" needs to be a thing in the SMB world? As much as I feel it's currently mostly nonsense, maybe it's serviceable. In the physical world, it seems the driving force behind buying security measures is not the (unlikely) possibility of being a victim of a break-in, but the (more likely) possibility of not getting insurance to cover it.)