Arfur wrote:
>
> The people who hang out in this group seem to be under some
> misapprehension that a normal, real-world corporate network is crammed
> with hackers.
>
> It isn't.
>
> Everybody has their own job and very few of them have any particular
> interest in computers - if one or two of them are hackers, I'm not
> going to waste time chasing them down, the other 11,000 have stopped
> wasting bandwidth by accessing ad servers.


That would assume their interested enough in computers to spend all
their time wasting bandwidth, and a company with 11,000 employees could
afford to get a real solution (and real bandwidth) as opposed to pumping
out a hosts file that doesn't account for a drop in the ocean of rubbish
sites out there!