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Not at all. The attack is directly inline with the goal of getting to whatever is at the other end of the attack. By contrast, nothing about SSL certificates, forward secrecy, encryption at rest or authentication and access controls is inline with the goals of say Facebook to deliver as many cat pictures and political memes to you as possible, and as many eyeballs to advertisers as possible.

Or put another way, in a world with 0 cyber security attackers, there would be no money or time spent on cyber security defense. But in a world with 0 cyber security defenders, there would still be people attacking resources and taking things the owners would rather they not have.




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