full-disclosure - Learn from history?

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From: lcamtuf at ghettot.org (Michal Zalewski)
Subject: Learn from history?

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Alerta Redsegura wrote:

> When we talk about risk, we are already taking into account the odds of the
> event happening:
>
> R = E x p
>
> Where:
>
> R = Risk
> E = event
> p = probability of the event happening

If we must toy with bogus marketspeak "equations", shouldn't E - at the
very least - numerically correspond to the consequences (loss?) caused by
an event, rather than being an event itself?

Otherwise, my risk R of getting a bar of chocolate from a stranger is
0.001 * getting_chocolate_bar_from_stranger.

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