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[H|Cr]acker Insurance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. An analogy by thesilverbail · · 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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  2. What a great idea. I can see it now. by Kenja · · 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 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wouldn't their names actually be Gu1d0 and Nunzzz10?

      Solomon

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  3. [H|Cr]acker? by cheesyfru · · 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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  4. Re:duh! by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Funny

    The "best" car insurance is a Hum-Vee.