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Security is never perfect and people are the weakest link by the very fact they are people. The same can be said for lots of things. What's the ratio of auto accidents caused by mechanical failure versus driver error? Pretty low I would guess.
You also have to factor in that there is little value in making it hard for customers to access your services and buy products. How attractive is a store with steel doors and no windows where you have to show ID and answer personal questions?
Computer Crime, Then and Now
I've already documented my brief, youthful dalliance with the illegal side of computing as it existed in the late 1980s. But was it crime? Was I truly a criminal? I don't think so. To be perfectly blunt, I wasn't talented enough to be any kind of threat. I'm still not. There are two classic b...
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