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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:28:02 -0600
From: Luke Scharf <luke.scharf@...sterbee.net>
To: "Rafal @ IsHackingYou.com" <rafal@...ackingyou.com>
Cc: Full-Disclosure mailing list <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: U.S. Is Losing Global Cyberwar,
 Commission Says

Rafal @ IsHackingYou.com wrote:
>     Hold the phone...$5k-$7k to fix an infected device!?  Really?  HOLY 
> CRAP... either that's a completely made-up "FUD" figure, or the government 
> contractors are making *way* too much money off my taxes.
>   

If you count lost productivity for both the IT staff who has to fix the 
device, and the person who actually uses it.  Plus, the amount of time 
people spend trying to secure the device and the network and against 
similar mistakes in the future...  Not to mention the time spent on 
forensics, if it's a new virus, or if the problem was particularly 
egregious. 

It costs a business money when a computer is down, just like it costs a 
factory money when a widget-maker is down.  Remember that IT budgets 
exist because people use the resources we provide -- not the other way 
around.  (People don't exist to use computers.)

-Luke

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