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“[Sites often get hacked simply because they present an opportunity for vandalism and not because they espouse any ideology or cause that an attacker may oppose, said Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisors Group in Severna Park, Md., and author of a book called Corporate Espionage.] To a hacker, you're just an IP address, ... You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.”
Ira Winkler
“You can get rid of all the ankle biters by using basic things, and people don't realize that,”
“With free e-mail, the more accesses there are, the more money they potentially make from advertising sales, so they don't put that much thought into the design of the system for security.”
“You can get rid of all the ankle biters by using basic things, and people don't realize that.”
“To a large extent, this could be a failure with open source.”
“The fact is, you can get lost in the statistics, and I think a lot of people will be surprised by the Linux vulnerability numbers. But it's impossible to write perfectly secure software that's also functional.”
“I'm not going to say Macintosh is as inherently buggy as Windows was about five years ago. But the holiday is over.”
