Earlier today, in conversation with a friend we jokingly talked about the situation arising out of the hacking news and the gobbledy gook dished out as an explanation by the hackee CEO.
Having a drink later, I had an Eureka moment and conceived the theory of Haped.
Haped, my friends, is a new cyber term for being hacked - the reason why it is "haped" is because the site (or organization) has been raped.
Once haped, life is never the same. Your hidden fruit has been tasted and a million explanations will not bring back your innocence, your original configuration, your OEM feel, or your default settings... that virgin state. It's like the crack in a mirror which is always there when you are looking at yourself and you will keep telling the world how the hape did not disclose the holes .
The Theory of Hape (abridged):
Every system or technology environment is built with known or unknown holes all over waiting to be penetrated an exploited.
After a hape, weak controls and dirty data is exposed to the world and management has to run around trying to save their reputation, jobs and more.
Hape is inevitable if one thinks that having devices, AV and certifications means total security ! Anyone living in such a fool's paradise must be prepared with red faced excuses followed by ulcers, resignations and silly accusations aimed at all and sundry.
Corollary 1:
When buying security services with an L-1 mentality you are bound to get the feeling of The Emperor's New Clothes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes) - sooner or later you will be hapee (no pun intended).
Corollary 2:
If haped, talk and walk straight. Jalebi (Gobbledy gook) stories drive away sympathy or help and bring ridicule.
Explanations:
HAPE: a cyberworld term coined to mean a site or system that has been hacked. It is a combination of the words hacked and raped which (sort of) mean the same thing in their respective worlds.
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES: A story about an egoistic king believes he was wearing a robe that was invisible to the lower class whereas he wasn't wearing anything.
MAJOR OR MINOR HAPE: Small incidents like a Website defacement, iframe attack, or a large scale incident like a DOS attack, data theft etc.
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Its not just devices & controls , but also how things are implemented as a whole. The policy , devices & controls have to be custom made for that organization only. Not a Crtl C & Crtl V. Also post implementation, it has to be revisited from time to time, updated & modified wherever necessary.
Sure life never remains the same post a "hape" , however that paranoia can help the organization become a little proactive & a little more responsible.
Sorry Dinesh but I think the term and the post are quite insensitive to a delicate issue such as rape. Can a destructive act so utterly devoid of any moral character - an act that is not just physical intimidation or sexual exploitation but that of extreme mental aggression and torture - be compared to anything else in the world? Leave alone to something as routine (though glamorous perhaps in some circles) as a computer related crime!
Please do not trivialise the issue of rape by coining or propogating such terms.
aw ! c'mon dinesh , you cant term this as "hall of shame", this ought to be "hall of fame". :)
Also this is what sets the term "India shining" The very fact of such events occurring dispels the notion that India is developing. Imagine someone falling for the nigerian scam. A sucker is born every minute, please dont blame the intelligent.
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