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posted by janrinok on Saturday June 13 2015, @08:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the computers-going-cheap? dept.

Amongst other news outlets, CIO reports on a hacker attack on the German parliament (Bundestag) that occured four weeks ago and is still ongoing:

Trojans introduced to the Bundestag network are still working and are still sending data from the internal network to an unknown destination, several anonymous parliament sources told German publication Der Spiegel.[German]
All software and hardware in the German parliamentary network might need to be replaced[1]. More than four weeks after a cyberattack, the government hasn't managed to erase spyware from the system, according to a news report.

Some MPs have concerns to call experts from the foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, for help, because the agency would gain access to the legislative process, a possible violation of the principles of Separation of Powers.

[1] Apparently about 20.000 machines are affected


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by No Respect on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:36AM

    by No Respect (991) on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:36AM (#195712)

    Fuck no it's not the same. Not even remotely. I'm talking about legal and ethical responsibility and assignment of blame for a technological, business and financial fuckup where people who should know better don't give a fuck and then lash out when their own fuckups result in damage. You just want to take that and project that that sentiment is equivalent to blaming the victim. Ha! Fuck you, no. Equating business loss and liability to personal, human suffering and violence is fucking wrong, dude.

    You are the problem. Look in the mirror the next time someone asks why this country is so fucked up. You are why all the other countries hate us.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @11:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @11:53AM (#195752)

    you can try to secure systems all you want, but if they contain something of sufficient value there will be hackers who invest plenty of effort into breaking them (and will in all likelihood succeed if the prize is worth it).

    I'm talking about legal and ethical responsibility and assignment of blame for a technological, business and financial fuckup where people who should know better don't give a fuck and then lash out when their own fuckups result in damage

    Under your dictatorship, businesses would go broke due to the costs of endless spending on security. In reality, businesses will always do the absolute minimum to cover their asses, and no more. For anything they miss there is liability insurance. If customers aren't happy with the level of security provided, they go elsewhere, which is why when security is paramount there is a market incentive to improve (such as banking). Forcing companies to be held liable for breaches is fine if such breach would cause grievous harm to others (such as security of weapons), but otherwise it will just pointlessly hurt small businesses who can't afford to have the best security or defend themselves in court.

    What would work much better than your bureaucratic bullshit is for your big government cronies to get out of the way and let failing corporations go bankrupt. If the market decides that a company has fucked up their security, it will abandon it to rot. If the government then comes in and bails it out, what the fuck good is that gunna do? It's just going to make the problem worse. It's called 'moral hazard' for you Keynesian imbeciles.

    Dipshit democrats like you are why businesses are so wrapped up in red tape they eventually get chased offshore.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @05:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @05:12PM (#195830)

      Sounds like natural selection where only the best and most competent prevail.

  • (Score: 1) by KGIII on Sunday June 14 2015, @08:50AM

    by KGIII (5261) on Sunday June 14 2015, @08:50AM (#196050) Journal

    Equating business loss and liability to personal, human suffering and violence is fucking wrong, dude.

    But you want to put the people who are victims of attacks into prison. That is, you know, equating business loss and liability to personal, human suffering and violence... And, it is fucking wrong, dude. Seriously? Did you seriously type that or was that a joke?

    Anyhow, if the penalty for failure is that high nobody will do the job and you can not force someone to do the job.

    --
    "So long and thanks for all the fish."
    • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday June 15 2015, @04:59PM

      by urza9814 (3954) on Monday June 15 2015, @04:59PM (#196585) Journal

      You guys are arguing the wrong point entirely. The victims of hacking attempts are not the operators of the networks which are hacked; the victims are the *users* of these networks. The owners of the networks are often co-conspirators in the crime. If they weren't aware you could say it's negligence rather than malice, but often they certainly *are* aware. "Securing against threat X will cost $Y" "That's too expensive; let the users get hacked."