And a world where even basic security isn't a thing until "we're serious about your privacy," which usually happens after a script kiddie figures out that their database and other systems are wide open with "admin/admin" as the login/pass.
Always sanitize your database queries, kids.
Yeah, it's not like there aren't firewalls that log IP addresses, and methods for backtracing those addresses, and no a VPN would not deter actual federal computer security experts if they were motivated to trace a connection, since the feds have demonstrated their ability to do so in the past.
None of that matters if there isn't basic locked-down security on the systems. Of which there probably wasn't, it wasn't monitored, or no one simply thought it important until the problem occurred.
If I were trying to access a system without permission, I'd probably attempt to destroy logging and other measures as well as recover the wanted data.
None of that matters if there isn't basic locked-down security on the systems.
The ease of getting into the system is a separate matter from the effort applied to catch the people once they did get into the system. Whether the bike thief cuts your Kryptonite lock or you just left it unlocked in front of the store, you'd still like to see the bike thief caught and punished.
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