So here's the deal. You contract with a firm to burgle your office. The specific rooms can be specified and items with a red dot - one of those little stick-em things you can find at any office supply place, won't be taken. [You might want to hang on to your laptop.]
All else will be grabbed overnight. Nothing will be left but the red tag items and you only get a limited number of those.
As time goes by, you receive notes from the "burglars." One might say, "We have the Grimshaw file. Send us $40 bucks or it's a goner." Another may threaten to deep-six that ashtray you brought back from Mexico unless you send them 20 dollars.
You get the point. You can buy back anything you feel you really need or want. All will be entirely legitimate. There will be no insurance claims. After a certain period of time, the firm will shred any document which might be confidential. The rest can be kept, sold or tossed out.
Now here's the question: If such a firm existed, would you be tempted to use its services?
3 comments:
There are ethical hackers that expose vulnerabilities in technical securities for businesses, hospitals or even private individuals. We used them all the time when I worked in R&D to ensure that our new little toys were not unintentionally exposing the company to new risk.
CincyCat,
You're right. There are also groups that are hired to test the perimeter security at nuclear power plants.
Michael
I looked up deep-six interesting expression...
The only issue is if those you are hiring to test the systems are any less resourceful, sneaky or devious than real unethical criminals, then there will usually still be holes.
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