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Original Post: Security and the weakest link
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Charles Miller points out that the human side of security is often the weakest link - your firewalls and intrusion detection systems are worthless if you let someone cart your systems off. The story talks about terror links, and Charles speculates about drug dealers - but that doesn't seem right to me. Industrial espionage, on the other hand, sounds to me like a possibility. Why try to hack a system to get a look if you can just walk off with it?
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