Monday, March 12, 2018

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The graph is wrong. There's the nitpicky objections that the x-axis isn't on a regular scale and should be labeled at the bottom, but that's not really important. What's dumb is that this is clearly meant to be a logistic regression plot, showing the probability of these two possible outcomes as a range from 0 to 1. What Randall has actually drawn is some kind of weird unscaled representation comparing the badness of outcomes as time passes, where there's some kind of continuum between getting hacked and receiving timely patches*.




*Also you must have a truly stunted imagination if you think getting your refrigerator taken over by a botnet is the "worst-case" outcome of owning a "smart appliance".

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