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How do you relate this to something like home security? You have valuables at your home. People can come in and take it with varying degrees of force. Are you prepared for the maximum force attack, or do you accept the typical security features which you know to be minimally effective?

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hahah was just gonna write about this, but you beat me to it.

Either way, the point is, there's a trade off. Kinda like the 80-20 rule. It obviously taken 20% effort to protect against 80% attacks (the casual opportunistic attacks. like preventing sql injections, or locking your front door) and it takes 80% effort to prevent those last 20% attacks (actual Pros). SO "you might as well not have bothered" is somewhat naive in my opinion

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