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In what way is this any different than someone picking the lock to the front door of your house, smashing things up with a baseball bat, carrying your valuables out to the street and then leaving you a note saying "you should have bought a better lock"?

I'd far rather live in a world where we didn't need the lock in the first place.



it's not.

the issue (for me) is how valuable the valuables are and how much security is protecting the valuables. There's a good reason why there's a major difference between the security protecting the mona lisa and the security protecting my car, even though both are secured and both are valuable.

when people under-secure assests that they claim to be securing, especially when those assets aren't theirs, I think they're partially to blame when the assets are eventually stolen. I'm blaming stratfor because i think they did a shitty job securing their customers' info, especially since the info belonged to paying customers.




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