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Re:“The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found on... by queuebert on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:31PM (#39111500)
This would be create an incentive to attack a competing company until you breach it 5x, causing its destruction. Competitors would be attacking each other nonstop.

Like 3 check chess, but in Delaware.

Re:“The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found on... by jjav on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:43PM (#39111598)
I don't have a huge problem with that to be honest. Maybe not fifth breach, but something along those lines.

Well-funded attackers and competing nations are already attacking these companies, so adding their competitors to the mix doesn't change a lot.

Re:“The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found on... by josephg on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @02:07AM (#39114483)
Yep. And if staying in business means keeping your website secure, well, isn’t that the goal?

I think part of the problem is that hacker movies make people think hacking is inevitable. Like you can’t actually protect your site and your data from the average punk on roller skates, so why bother? But that’s not true at all. Gmail has - as far as we know - never been breached by anything short of a nation state attacker. And I’m sure a lot of people have tried. You just need to actually care about security and follow best practices (like doing audits / red team and keep up to date with security patches). But most companies only seem interested in properly investing in security if it’s an existential threat.