Re: Undisclosed breach at major US facility

[Q-Ball <qballus () gmail com>]

Security is simply a cost/benefit excercise at the end of the day. No one
implements security just to feel better about themselves.

On 7/5/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:25:15 EDT, Stack Smasher said:
> > Like I said, shareholder value and profit plays a huge role in people
> > getting off their ass and doing something to help the general public,
> > seeing as how you have mostly worked at a university you don't have an
> > executive board screaming at you
>
> Universities have their equivalent of executive boards, trust me.
>
> And when you have almost 7,000 full time employees, the annual budget is
> $821M,
> and the R&D budget alone is $268M, the management acts the same whether
> it's a
> university or a corporation. Trust me on this one too.  And yes, I'm not
> pulling those numbers out of a hat:
>
> http://www.vt.edu/aboutvt/universityataglance.html
>
> (And even at a quarter-billion a year, we're only #55 on the research list
> -
> there's places where the money being tossed around is even bigger, and
> upper
> management acts correspondingly....)
>
>
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