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by bxr 5477 days ago
>If LulzSec looks at you, you get to spend millions beefing up security

...or, you know, be competent in the first place.

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They can choose when and where to attack, but you have to defend everywhere all the time. I suspect we're in a situation where cost of being competent > probability of lulz * cost of remediation.
>I suspect we're in a situation where cost of being competent > probability of lulz * cost of remediation.

Yup, unfortunately this is true, and half-assing it because of this is what gets us onerous new internet legislation.