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Comment author: James_Miller 21 July 2015 03:41:07AM *  7 points [-]

There have been a lots of data breaches recently. Is this because of incompetence, or is it really difficult to maintain a secure database? If I'm going to let at least 100 people have access to a database and intelligent hackers really want to get access for themselves do I have much of a chance of stopping the hackers? Restated: have the Chinese and Russians probably hacked into most every database they really want?

Comment author: Lumifer 21 July 2015 03:45:59AM *  6 points [-]

Is this because of incompetence, or is it really difficult to maintain a secure database?

Both.

have the Chinese and Russians probably hacked into most every database they really want?

I wonder why you exclude the Americans from the list of the attackers :-/

The answer is no, I don't think so, because while maintaining a secure database is hard, it's not impossible, especially if the said database not connected to the 'net in any way.

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