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flippedyesterday at 4:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

People often forget that Threat Actors (TA) are the ones keeping the infosec alive. They are doing a good job of scaring people into implementing actual security protocols and thereby improving everyone's security posture. The whole infosec would collapse without TAs, let's not forget that. They create jobs.


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seanhunteryesterday at 5:52 PM

This is the “Broken Window” fallacy[1] which was explained by Bastiat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

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oytisyesterday at 5:06 PM

That's right. They also create jobs for police though, and now German police is doing theirs

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