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0 pointshpoe4y ago0 comments

The disconnect isn't that we require people to have state of the art impenetrable locks, we are requiring them merely to lock the door when they are out.

These standards that are out there aren't difficult to implement or put in place. For example if we look at PCI-DSS standards some of them include

1 - Changing default passwords

2 - Having a firewall

3 - Encrypting PCI information at rest

4 - Using encrypted communication channels for PCI (https).

This is just some of the standards and none of them are very hard, all of them are trivial to implement.

So sure it's a bad thing if you get robbed while out on errands, but you're going to get a whole lot less sympathy if it turns out you left the front door open with a sign that said, "I'm not home right now."

EDIT:

To be clear I am not talking about SMB mom and pop shops necessarily in this comment, I am talking about the massive Fortune 1000 companies that are getting hit with this over and over again.

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kradeelav4y ago

Trivial to an infosec professional, sure, but what about the artists, the wordpress cpanel hosters like me that can rig up a site using html/css but doesn't dare to host anything more dynamic knowing full well there'll be security holes?

There's a huge gap in technical skill from "can get an interactive site online" front-end-ish perspective versus a back end professional.

shuntress4y ago

> The disconnect isn't that we require people to have state of the art impenetrable locks, we are requiring them merely to lock the door when they are out.

This is missing the point. My doors are locked and (as far as I can tell) the locks have not been defeated.

My problem is with the constant attempts to defeat the locks on my door and with people like you telling me things like > "you're going to get a whole lot less sympathy if it turns out you left the front door open with a sign that said, "I'm not home right now."" when what I'm complaining about is that robbers are banging on my locked door while I am behind it watching them on the security camera.

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