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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1396256, member: 27043&quot;]You know who goes with me whenever I head to a coin store, craigslist coin buy, bank, or anything of the like?</p><p><br /></p><p>My beloved German Shepherd.&nbsp; She loves car rides, and especially adores open windows to stick her head out of. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Would she hurt anyone?&nbsp; Is she trained?&nbsp; How would she react to an attempt to steal my stuff, or hurt me?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have never answered those questions....and, amazingly enough, nobody&#039;s ever decided to find out.&nbsp; :too-funny:</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s kinda the point here...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve taught many hundreds of hours of &quot;security&quot; in various forms or another.&nbsp; And there is, regardless of the target, the thieves/hackers, the network/scenario/business/setting, a very simple and fundamental rule to all security :</p><p><br /></p><p>Your resource (data/coins/daughter/jewelry/whatever) has a value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The attacker&#039;s time and effort has a value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The moment the attacker perceives the former to be higher than the latter...you&#039;re toast.&nbsp; Period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t get me wrong..I have no place in my heart for thieves.&nbsp; (Well..I do...but it&#039;s a cold dark place)&nbsp; But the victim in this case simply didn&#039;t take even the most basic of steps to secure his belongings.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your statement above...&quot;That&#039;s all the time they need.&quot; is exactly right.&nbsp; And it&#039;s WHY he got robbed.&nbsp; The time it took to jump out of a car, break a window, grab an armload of stuff, and jump back in the van WAS all the time they needed.&nbsp; Frankly, that&#039;s simply not very difficult to do.&nbsp; You could, quite literally, train a monkey...or even a decent dog...to pull off that heist.&nbsp; Get out, break glass, grab object, get in.&nbsp; Wag wag, where&#039;s my hot dog?</p><p><br /></p><p>So guess what...the attacker&#039;s time and effort was very very low.&nbsp; Low time = low risk, low effort = low probability of failure.&nbsp; And the resource?&nbsp; Very high value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Resource value &gt; attack value, and surprise surprise, an attack occurs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Forget for a moment all this &quot;never stop for food&quot;, or &quot;don&#039;t go potty&quot; garbage, or whatever.&nbsp; What if:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) The coins had simply been placed in the trunk?&nbsp; Trunk lids aren&#039;t that tough to pop, but they&#039;re a heck of a lot noisier, a heck of a lot more obvious to passers by, and decidedly trickier than &quot;Hulk smash glass!&nbsp; WHAM!&quot;&nbsp; All of those things drive time AND risk up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe...</p><p><br /></p><p>2) The coins had been &quot;scattered&quot; in the trunk, glove box, dealer&#039;s briefcase.&nbsp; A few in a metal lock box over here by the spare tire, a few under the jack, some in the box in the back seat, 3-4 slabs in the glove box, a briefcase at the table with the dealer holding 10-15 more.&nbsp; Now the value of any easily grabbed section of the resource is decidedly lower, AND we&#039;ve increased time (and thus risk) AND complexity (and thus chance of failure).</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a couple of very simple things would have changed the equation quite a bit.&nbsp; Sure...you can carry a firearm, hire a protector, drive crazy routes, and a million other things...and, no doubt, some of them are fine ideas, and would have prevented this.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the reality is that MOST attacks are very easy and inexpensive to prevent, and this was one of them.&nbsp; Simply don&#039;t make it worth their while.&nbsp; In other words...make it difficult to steal. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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