so easy

[evilkoal]

you would think that most servers have some relatively decent protection on them, but most don't. most police stations, fire departments, hospitals, and most businesses dont have adequate protection... quite sad actually. we pay millions of dollars each year for our infrastructure to be secure, but some kid in his moms basement can easily break into almost anywhere with relative ease. then if you cant figure it out, you can just use the brute force technique and now with dx11, your video card can be used as a processor... so think, 5 terraflops of processing power (per 5970 card) or you could go quad crossfire, plus a quadcore processor, and you have yourself a supercomputer capable of breaking in to almost any protection. you just have to learn how to code in C, then you can make your own dx11 brute force program!

 

then there is the whole norton antivirus. i love that fu**ing program. there is a giant back door that you cant find unless you already know it is there, courtesy of the U.S. government.

 

YOU CAN GET INTO A POLICE STATION'S NETWORK EXTREMELY EASILY OVER THE INTERNET. WTF. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS GO INTO ELECTRONIC PROTECTION, AND THIS IS WHAT WE GET?

 

now my question is: why isnt our infrastructure more secure than this?

[Pronam]

Costs vs gains..that's all. If someone breaks in it'll cost more to fix it that it would've been if it was secured and didn't happen in the first place. But keeping it easy, with the risks and thinking none will do, is a lot cheaper. Unless a lot of people will start to crack all securities everywhere and politicians have to explain why all that happened, not much is going to change. As they'd rather cover up a single break-in every once in a while than to spend a dollar more to security.

[evilkoal]

that sounds about right lol :)