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Pride goes before a fall.

Imagine an interview with the managing director of a company that recently acquired a celebrated german Web2.0 community web site. The managing director tells us that this web site might have had some problems in the past but they've learnt from their mistakes and everything's fine now. Even the site's notorious security bugs were fixed that good, that even hackers from Germany's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) were not able to hack the site. If you know Germany's web-two-oh market, you already know that I'm talking about the student portal site StudiVZ that has been acquired by a Holtzbrinck subsidiary company.
Within a few hours the web site's blog has been defaced, showing a counterstatement to that interview. It's not sure whether CCC members or sympathizer had done it, but if a simple-minded manager boasts with abstract terms like "security" and "hack-proof" then this would be nothing else but an invitation. They'll never learn.

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