Re: Needed
And not include the cost to the victim of securing their systems like they should have done in the first place.
And there's the rub: so many of these incidents use the entire clean-up cost to over-state the "damage" that has occurred, when the bulk of that clean-up is in implementing the security they should have had all along. Actual damages are so trivial you wouldn't even bother filing charges, but then some high-level manager or similar would end up looking stupid - so the costs are inflated to save face. It helps that that facilitates extradition, to boot...
If the courts were to get wise to this, I guarantee substantially all "hacking" cases would become frivolous.
Vic.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
