doorknob101

What exactly did the Pet Shop Boys mean by "West End Girls?"

http://news.softpedia.com/news/EA-Security-Chief-Networks-Hard-to-Defend-Against-AETs-and-APTs-266720.shtml

'Speaking at Infosecurity Europe, Spencer Mott, the chief information security officer (CISO) at Electronic Arts (EA) revealed that the task of securing networks was not an easy one. Furthermore, he believes that advanced evasion techniques (AETs) and advanced persistent threats (APTs) that target networks are “undefendable.”'

Let's pretend the investigators get paid $35/hour and 8 hours of work costs the company $420 (cost + 50% for insurance/taxes/tools/etc). Maybe the investigator has to research the case for 4 hours then search on the internet for 4 hours, and then drive to 3 places to get info. So it take 4 days or $1620 of employee costs, travel etc, maybe it's $2k.

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The investigator finds some 'dirt' half the time. The average value of the dirt found is $3k of decreased value but the expected value is $3k*50% = $1500.

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The cost is $2k but only $1500 of expected value; so that's why they don't do it often.

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If the value has 5 zeros and likelihood is >50%; they probably will. If the company has hired, unused, trained investigators available to do the investigation before the insurance regulators complain that the case isn't timely settled, that is.

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Hey Peter - I think you're really cute. Are you single?

What are you doing in your new company to avoid quitting due to stress like you did at Reddit?