full-disclosure - Learn from history?

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From: Jos at meltemi.co.uk (Jos Osborne)
Subject: Learn from history?

Michal Zalewski wrote:

> 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.
>

Or ten times that if you're prepared to give them your administrator password...