TKO - Built for disaster

This probably can be applied to any security, but I will look at it from an IT guys perspective since that's where I'm sitting looking out over the fields. Once the day comes and your network/computer is breached through loopholes or badly patched systems or whatever it may be it will cost your company (a lot of) money. It can be through information theft, goodwill or just plain hooliganism deleting important data. This cost is often credited as a "non-foreseen" cost and your security department will get questions why this or that happened and why the department costs so much money to run, to begin with. What the people with the money bags often don't realize that this cost comes from executives "saving" money earlier on by launching services/applications that weren't ready for launching. "Let's skip this, we can fix it later" kind of mentality so the money starts pouring in as soon as possible. Mentality like that will eventually bite ...

It's weird. Swedish deputy state prosecutor Mikael Hammarstrand wants to charge health professionals prescribing birth control pills to girls under the age of 15. This due to the fact that girls under 15 aren't allowed to have sexual intercourse under the Swedish law. It makes me draw parallels to The Pirate Bay prosecution in Swedish court where IFPII et al claims that TPB is responsible for distributing copyrighted material through their servers. Makes me wonder: - Should hardware stores be prosecuted because they sell hammers that can be used to smash peoples heads? - Should the state be prosecuted because they make highways available for criminals to use as a getaway? - Should car manufacturers be charged because people die in crashes? - Should McDonalds be charged because they sell coffee which might burn people's tongues? (Oh wait...)