So I’m casually flipping through Slashdot (which I do a whole lot less than I did during the dot.com glory years) and I come across… Cybercrime-As-a-Service Takes Off.
At that point my head exploded.
I want to help Vlado Vajdic of Vasco who may or may not be selling CyberAuthentication-As-a-Service understand that what he’s described reminds me an awful lot of oh… I dunno… THE ENTIRE GODDAMN HISTORY OF CRIME.
There have always been people who would sell you a capability and then operate that capability for you as a service.
They’re usually called Mercenaries. Whether they are on the side of good or bad is simply a matter of perspective.
Hell, it’s what I do for a living! I’m a consultant. I’ll show you how to do something, help you if you have trouble, and heck, I’ll even do it for you.
Vlado is getting cranked up about the fact that there are bad guys who will do bad things for money. (She|He) is also very interested in you acquiring (His|Her) mercenary services as an antidote to bad guys. And of course, since it’s CYBER-, you’ll buy it, it’s automatically better.
Why in the hell do we so easily accept that as soon as you add the prefix “CYBER-” to something, it’s suddenly new and nearly incomprensible?
Pardon me, I need to reassemble my head.
(CC licensed image from Midnight-Digital’s Flickr Stream)
[tags]cyberdouchery, cybercrime-as-a-service, head, asplode, Vasco, Vlado Vajdic[/tags]