Sources of security breaches (was: Trade)

[Colin Muller]

Christian wrote:

> Must I point out the obvious?  Firstly, the criminal activities to which
> you refer (as a general pattern of behaviour) are isolated to a
> relatively small percentage of our population.  Therefore, to become a
> victim you must come in contact with a member of this percentage at the
> wrong time in the wrong place.  Either that or you come in contact with
> a person who typically would not be part of that percentage but through
> extraordinary circumstances temporarily becomes so inclined.  Usually
> these circumstances involve some sort of emotion: i.e., greed, revenge,
> jealousy, frustration, rage, extreme lust etc.  The reason most of these
> crimes are committed by someone known to the victim is because most of
> the people you come in contact with are known to you and vice versa!
> (Either that or you come in contact with them and then begin to know
> them which brings you to the same point.)  How many of us spend the
> majority of our time with complete strangers?
> 
> Things are obviously different where computer crime is concerned.
> Firstly, it's usually a much less emotive thing.  Furthermore, through
> the Internet you can come in contact with a good percentage of the
> networked machines (=> people) on the planet.  Therefore, statistically,
> it would make sense that it is more likely that you will be the victim
> of an attack by someone whom you do not know.

Your logic is seriously flawed, but you've already made it clear that
you discuss on the basis of feeling rather than logic, so I won't
trouble to walk you through it.

Colin