Krypt3ia: Today we have businesses selling intelligence wholesale to corporations that are not mature enough to use the data they are being sold. While a mature organization might have use of these feeds and reports on various groups the average company out there today just cannot use the data because they lack the practices and people to truly understand the information as well as apply it to their orgs. ... These companies perpetuate the idea that attribution is the key to stopping all your hacking woes ...
Peter Stephenson: If you really want to make this tool dance you will need to have a rather full understanding of where you want to go and how you think that you need to get there. There are some things that take a human, and it leverages its resources to make that effective. But to get the most out of it you need to be a pretty effective human in your own right.
Paul Braterman: There is one important difference between human and animal arms races that Emlen does not discuss. Natural selection is brutal but rational, and expensive armament does not survive unless it does in reality contribute to its owner's individual fitness. Human weaponry is very different, because it is the result of political choices ... Dung beetles have better sense.
Marc Rogers: Let's face it -- most of today's so-called "cutting edge" security defenses are either so specific, or so brittle, that they really don't offer much meaningful protection against a sophisticated attacker or group of attackers.
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