 Recently, Norton, Symantec, whatever the company is called these days released a report saying that information is worth more than drugs. Let that sink in for a minute. All you drug barons, warlords, everyone, you're in the wrong business. Information is the industry you need to get into because they make something like 40 bazillion, gillion, whatever, 12 zeros at the end of a number is. A year and you only make a peddly few billion. Now the first question that cup would come to anyone's mind, especially those working in information security is where's my slice of the pie? I mean you would expect like there to be crooked information dealers around every corner willing to slip you a envelope full of unmarked bills to look the other way while they VPN a tunnel into your network and siphon off some data. But that doesn't happen in real life. If we're drawing the comparisons between the drug trade and the black underground market of information trade then how do they actually measure up to each other? Hey man, amigo, I've got some fine information for you. I got credit card information, I got mother's made a name information, I got data, but come on, I'll get you some, I'll sort you some out, I'll give you some good prize, man. Better still, security professionals will be made to go undercover in order to do trades with the said dodgy dealers of information. And, you know man, you've got that information you were talking about, you know, it's close. You've got the yeyo, the yeyo, of course I've got the yeyo, you can tell it to the judge. And that's not all, I'm sure the NHS or whatever health service your country runs would be full of people overdosing on information and you need to give them an adrenaline shot to the heart. But I think more than anything you'd have a lot of information security professionals burnt by guilt, you know, the sole Maverick renegade type of professional who's just let that one credit card information slip out through his fingers and the guilt eats him up on the inside and, you know, he becomes this kind of like dark Avenger. I stood by the shorelines for too long, seeing information slip through fingers like sand. Too many liars have been wasted, but I will stand for it no longer. I will seek revenge against these information, penniless and pimps and lone hives. Today, the information security community takes a stab. I think all in all what people need to consider is, okay, there's a value at information and probably being traded or stolen or used to hack into your bank account right now. But that's just a figure. It's, again, not compared to drugs, but it's not the same as drugs. Drugs are drugs, they cause health harms and other seizures and they help ugly people get laid. And information is information and that's what it is. Stay secure, my friends.