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TalkTalk: Hackers may have nicked personal, banking info on 4 million Brits

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Re: Apathy

Right into the toilet, it's going!

Seriously, I was chatting to an acquaintance last night about this very thing. Back in the early Internet days, no one needed to protect anything because there was not the sort of general admission to the Internet that there is now. A password was good enough, and only network wizards could afford a network sniffer, and then it was huge and he needed to be nearby. You needn't worry about security or protocol vulnerabilities because only people from universities, big corporations and our friendly gov and mil users were on the net. Who knew?

Anyway, it never ends. There will always be people putting out sub-standard products in terms of security. There will always be some grandpa who doesn't secure his net and laptop so they will be the first to join their botnet. There will always be some goofy IT boss who once was an admin for a few months, and every idea that plops out of them will be GOLDEN, until it's tested then they should be fired for their part in the breach. Anyway, there will always be someone smarter than ourselves trying to figure out how to break into a consumer wifi through an online teapot. There will always be governments who hoard zero-days rather than inform the manufacturer. There will always be a need for security people to charge US$100+/hr for their services to clean up with all of the above collectively fudged up together. Always.

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