jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Sep 19 18:02:27 CDT 2011
And if we would just hunt down and execute the criminals, publicly, with lots of gore, and a note pinned to their chest, it would come to a screeching halt. Way cheaper than protections. ;) The other consideration is how many infected computers would be bot-nets without such protections? And with the additional billion plus cpus in the bot-net how much more damage could they be doing? Have you ever heard of Blue Frog? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog I was part of that solution, and it in fact worked swimmingly. Notice what happened to the company and the solution. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 9/19/2011 6:28 PM, Mark Breen wrote: > Hello Hans-Christian, > > I am not religious about this, and I suppose I cannot disagree with most of > what you have mentioned - there are unknown costs. > > The only bit that I disagree with is the "little bit". The efforts we have > all spent over the last 20 years to protect ourselves is enormous. It is > billions and billions of Euro. > > The only real point that I was throwing out is to remind ourselves of that > and to attempt to balance the reward for that investment. > > John's comments about average values are of course correct, but the message > is still valid - billions and tens or hundreds of billions spent to protect > what sometimes is only millions and tens of millions. > > I just thought it was an interesting take on things. > > Mark > > > > > On 19 September 2011 16:36, Hans-Christian Andersen<ha at phulse.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > You are correct in the sense that it is not feasible to have perfect > security. However, I take issue with how financial systems quietly write off > loses, even if, to them, it's just a fraction of their profits. Their > analysis of cost/benefit often leaves out the true cost. You have to ask > yourself: wheres does the money go, who benefits from it and how do they > benefit from it. In much the same way that the true cost of > industrialization to the environment was not known or was ignored, money > stolen from bank accounts and so forth typically go to criminal > organizations and whatnot, which then leads to problems in the world that > often leads to taxes and other social resources being wasted. A little bit > more effort would go a long way and it is very hard to calculate the true > cost of not fixing things; especially when the solution already exists. > > Hans-Christian > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >