These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.
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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
Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unauthorized users access because that saves them money,
Ira Winkler
When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to use the product .... They should be responsible for when there's a security-related problem for e-mailing everybody that registered that product and let them know.
Ira Winkler
I'm not going to say Macintosh is as inherently buggy as Windows was about five years ago. But the holiday is over.
Ira Winkler
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.
Ira Winkler
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