Re: Gawker gets hacked

[Michael Douglas <mick () pauldotcom com>]

Best advice!  I strongly second...  Don't poke bears with a stick.  On
the Buzz Out Loud podcast a few days back, Molly Wood was simply
beside herself trying to understand why you would bring that heat down
on yourself like that.

Part of having a good security program is letting folks know that it
isn't perfect.  It's yet another aspect of securing the human.

I've had plenty of jobs where a client opened malware deliberately!
"we have anti-virus and firewalls, we're safe right?"


Never a dull day for us, huh?

Have a great day everyone!
- Mick


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Daniel Holiday <dehaul () gmail com> wrote:
> My only thought was the blasé reaction reaction from the gawker folks
> indicated in the chat logs was really gross.
>
> Also, the head gawker guy kept claiming how secure they were, this and
> that and how much the Anonymous guys were dumb. Usually that is a dumb
> thing to do. Don't poke bears with a stick.
>
> Other than that - this is/was bound to happen and is bound to happen
> again. There are just too many sites with too much of your personal
> infos on them for the infos not to leak out.
>
> As Larry said on the last episode (123) information wants to be free -
> or there is always someone out there that wants information to be
> free.
>
> dehaul
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