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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2540011, member: 1892"]Back when I was sniping heavily, I learned that doing it successfully by myself was sheer luck in the presence of sniping programs. So I switched to the program, and just went on a regular password change/monitoring regimen so that any information compromise would be unlikely to have an effect. </p><p><br /></p><p>People compromise business information not for them to personally exploit - two far different skillsets - but to sell that information to the people who <b>do</b> exploit it. There's a period of downtime there where a regular password change system easily defeats the exploit.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you watch this stuff as closely as I do, you eventually realize that these exploits <b>rarely</b> translate into actual financial damage. If they did, the businesses being harmed would have long since forced the necessary changes to prevent them, especially when you understand that the "changes" amount solely to beefing up your IT section and being far more proactive about updating software and rewriting your own code to leverage the latest security and compatibility features. It's all a question of which choice costs you the least....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2540011, member: 1892"]Back when I was sniping heavily, I learned that doing it successfully by myself was sheer luck in the presence of sniping programs. So I switched to the program, and just went on a regular password change/monitoring regimen so that any information compromise would be unlikely to have an effect. People compromise business information not for them to personally exploit - two far different skillsets - but to sell that information to the people who [B]do[/B] exploit it. There's a period of downtime there where a regular password change system easily defeats the exploit. If you watch this stuff as closely as I do, you eventually realize that these exploits [B]rarely[/B] translate into actual financial damage. If they did, the businesses being harmed would have long since forced the necessary changes to prevent them, especially when you understand that the "changes" amount solely to beefing up your IT section and being far more proactive about updating software and rewriting your own code to leverage the latest security and compatibility features. It's all a question of which choice costs you the least....[/QUOTE]
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