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June 8th, @12:22PM
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Re: Secutiy Question
You're confusing prevention with mitigation.
A compromised computer can be re-imaged in minutes, but if the keylogger has already sent the user's logins, CCNUMS etc to the hackers, re-imaging won't roll back the transfer of the data to the hackers who will still have it despite your reload. That mitigation will take a little longer than eight minutes.
If a spambot has sent out a few thousand child porn spams, the emails will still have been sent out from your PC, even if you reimage.
If someone uses your system for things that violate your ISP's TOS and you are shut off by the ISP, it may take more than eight minutes to resolve that issue.
If someone uses your system for illegal activities that are traced back to you through your ISP, you may spend more than eight minutes convincing someone that you weren't the culprit, or that you didn't willfully cooperate with the culprit.
Reimage doesn't mitigate the effects of the breach, but only removes the tools used for it. So, as I said, you've gotten your responses and have simply reworded your earlier theories. Again, if you still feel you don't need what's recommended, put your money where your mouth is and try it.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes or its theories will hold water.
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