[H|Cr]acker Insurance

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 28, 2003 @05:14AM from the thats-a-lotta-insurance dept.

Spellbinder writes "yahoo has an article on Hacker insurance, also known as "network risk insurance," has been on the market for about three years, but is expected to explode from a $100 million sideshow into a $2.5 billion behemoth by 2005, according to insurance industry projections."

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Risks... by Corporate+Troll · 2003-01-28 05:19 · Score: 2, Funny

If running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or IIS.... augment risk with 1000%.
1. Re:Risks... by capt.Hij · 2003-01-28 05:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Running Redhat without advanced server: augment risk 500% unless you upgrade more than once a year and drive your sysadmins nuts.
First lame insurance post. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-28 05:22 · Score: 1, Funny

How about claiming millions of dollars in damage just because the ceo got a virus? Sounds like a good business model to me.
problem by io333 · 2003-01-28 05:34 · Score: 2, Funny

[I] [T]hink [Y]ou [M]ay [H]ave [A] [C]opywright [V]iolation [I]n [T]he [F]irst [L]ine [O]f [T]he [S]tory?
An analogy by thesilverbail · 2003-01-28 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Thats like the story of NASA inventing this hyper-super-duper centrifugally balanced gravity boosting ballpoint pen for their astronauts and the Soviets bringing along a pencil.

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What a great idea. I can see it now. by Kenja · 2003-01-28 05:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Guido: Nice network you gots here, it would be a shame if something where to happen to it.
Customer: What do you mean?
Nunzio: You know, accidents, like your customer records being posted on slashdot. Accidents happen you know.
Guido: But your in luck, my brother and me can, for a small fee, grantee your network wont be hacked by disreputable people like us. Think of it as "insurance".

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1. Re:What a great idea. I can see it now. by Skevin · 2003-01-28 06:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Wouldn't their names actually be Gu1d0 and Nunzzz10?
  
  Solomon
  
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2. Re:What a great idea. I can see it now. by Xerithane · 2003-01-28 06:13 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  I was thinking something more like this:
  
  Luigi: How many servers you got here, Colonel?
  Colonel: Oh, er ... seven hundred workstations, two hundred Linux servers, and er, two dozen Sun servers.
  Luigi:Sun servers, Dino.
  Dino:Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.
  Colonel: Set fire to them?
  Luigi: Fires happen, Colonel.
  Dino: Things burn.
  
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Let me guess.. by nortcele · 2003-01-28 05:41 · Score: 1, Funny

and the main investor in these insurance companies would be...
Microsoft perhaps?
More insurance. by eniu!uine · 2003-01-28 05:48 · Score: 2, Funny

How about slashdot insurance?

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[H|Cr]acker? by cheesyfru · 2003-01-28 05:52 · Score: 4, Funny

I know what a hacker is, but what is a "cacker" or a "racker"?

(simple regular expression bugs in article titles explain a lot about why Slash is the way it is)

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YES! STEP 2 IS REALIZED! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · 2003-01-28 05:57 · Score: 3, Funny

1) Collect Insurance Policies
2) H@x0r 127.0.0.1
3) Profit!
Re:duh! by B3ryllium · 2003-01-28 06:03 · Score: 4, Funny

The "best" car insurance is a Hum-Vee.
INSURANCE DENIED by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-28 06:16 · Score: 2, Funny

you are running M$ software so there is a pre-existing condition.

sorry.
a115tat3 by floppy+ears · 2003-01-28 06:18 · Score: 2, Funny

Ah, maybe that explains why I keep getting hacked by some l33t dude called a115tat3.

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Re:duh! by B3ryllium · 2003-01-28 06:50 · Score: 2, Funny

See?
Re:duh! by sean23007 · 2003-01-28 07:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Well, you could have logged in and changed the root password...

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