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Facebook Targeted in 'Sophisticated Attack'

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)2/15/2013 7:30:23 pm PST

re: #23 lawhawk

The problem is there’s no absolute security. You can’t make a system hackproof. You can make it very hard, but almost all systems can be cracked by the simple social hack of mailing a bunch of USB sticks to the VPs from some made up company. They’ll go ahead and stick them into their secure, protected computers and with physical access you can get deep control. You can get antiviruses to scan shit like that but it’s a very imperfect defense.

It’s really rare that a corporation can have the culture of security that’s necessary. The network security is necessary but people have to abide by the rules, and most places will find consistent rulebreaking since computer security generally interferes with how people do their job.

It’s the DRM problem in a different form, basically.