Comment by alganet
Can you elaborate more? It seems that you disagree but I'm missing the rationale behind it.
Can you elaborate more? It seems that you disagree but I'm missing the rationale behind it.
As you said, small businessess have less expertise and budget to deal with the problem.
Telling your gramma she has a virus only makes her become afraid, she won't magically gain the ability to identify it. That's my whole reasoning here. It makes things worse.
Keeping it quiet and only disclosing to larger firms means that lots of small firms will hire these people, with the economic and IP harms they entails.