Re:ATT dumps Kevin Mitnick
by wmf on Thursday August 20, 2009 @03:24PM
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A single user that constantly gets attacked by hackers would provide a great opportunity to detect and fix security holes.
Assuming that they want to fix the holes, which AT&T probably doesn't. They may be using the "infinite bugs" model, in which fixing one bug does not improve security because there are always other bugs the attackers can find.
Assuming that they want to fix the holes, which AT&T probably doesn't. They may be using the "infinite bugs" model, in which fixing one bug does not improve security because there are always other bugs the attackers can find.