Quotes form "Black code" and "Where good ideas come from"

Quotes from the book Black code - Ronald J. Deibert

Hiring a DDOS attack, $30-$70 a day; backing a Facebook or Twitter account, $130; hacking a Gmail account, $162; scans of legitimate passports, $5 each. Around globe botnets can be rented cheap online from public websites for weeks, days, even hours.

The security firm McAfee estimates that they receive 80,000 new malicious software samples a day.

Want a fresh exploit that will target Adobe ? That will cost anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000. Mac OS X ? $20,000 to $50,000. Android ? $30,000 to $60,000. One exploit targeting Apple's iOS system was reportedly sold to a U.S. agency for $250,000.

DDOS outage would cause substantial financial firms estimating losses at more than $10,000 per hour, and 67 percent of retailers at $1000,000 per hour. Beyond financial losses, companies also reported fears of damage to brand reputation.

Quotes from "where good ideas come from - Steve Johnson"

All other things being equal, a breakthrough that lets you execute two jobs that were impossible before is twice as innovative as a breakthrough that lets you do only one new thing.

The most productive tool for generating good ideas remains a circle of humans at a table.

The social flow of the group conversation turns that private solid state into a liquid network.

Exploring the adjacent possible can be as simple as opening a door. But sometimes you need to move a wall.

The slow hunch is the rule, not the exception.

You need a system for capturing hunches, but not necessarily categorizing them, because categories can build barriers between disparate ideas.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Noise-free environments end up being too sterile and predictable in their output. The best innovation labs are always a little contaminated.

Chance favors the connected mind.