If every car in your neighborhood that gets broken into is manufactured by a single manufacturer, it is in your interest in asking why that is, and perhaps considering that fact when shopping for a new car.
That does happen though. Cars worth more are stolen while cards worth less are not.
The common factor there isn’t that 40 year old hatchbacks have better security. It’s that the risk vs reward isn’t there compared to the brand new luxury cars with higher resale value on the black market.
This isn’t something I’ve just made up either. This is what the police told us when my neighbours Merc was stolen while my Skoda, which was accidentally left unlocked, was not.
Thieves target the expensive cars because they’re worth more. It’s really that simple.
> Thieves target the expensive cars because they’re worth more. It’s really that simple.
They don't target the expensive cars. The most stolen cars in the US are cheap Hyundais And Kias. Before they claimed the top spot on the list of cars taken most often the winner was pick up trucks and old Toyotas.
Thieves target what's easy to take and easy to chop up and sell, not luxury cars with high resale value.
If every car in your neighborhood that gets broken into is manufactured by Ford, but some people keep saying that their sneakers never get broken into, why don't you just walk everywhere, also they've never driven a car and don't really believe anyone else drives a car and keep implying it's just a status symbol...
and then they say "okay what if we consider everyone's sneakers all together, and how rarely they get stolen compared to cars" as if they've come up with a sensible comparison in complexity...
and then someone suggests "RedHat Linux" as an alternative to your car. Apparently they don't know what section of the world a car fits into, to suggest an alternative - but they're still convinced that you don't need a car and they are genuinely puzzled why more people aren't using "RedHat Linux" instead of cars...
... also only Ford make cars and the only real alternative is something completely different and then pay consultants to customise it and retrain your entire workforce at great cost and upheaval for little to no return, except hoping for an increase in security but not being able to prove same, or even clearly nail down what that means precisely.
One should be wary of anyone selling you a solution to your problems they know nothing about. Naturally, the only way to be entirely secure is to shutdown all the applications and decommission all the computers, a solution which the business side tends to finds unreasonable. Thus the tender balance between business needs and business risk emerges as the deciding principle.
But the numbers are the numbers in heterogenous environments, regarding security problems by platform. And if it rains perpetual Windows-based incidents on your security staff, and you don't consider the numbers when evaluating what you will and will not do, compute/services-wise, then you are statistically likely to see the same rate of incidents, at whatever cost that comes to the business, indefinitely.
hnlmorg|7 months ago
The common factor there isn’t that 40 year old hatchbacks have better security. It’s that the risk vs reward isn’t there compared to the brand new luxury cars with higher resale value on the black market.
This isn’t something I’ve just made up either. This is what the police told us when my neighbours Merc was stolen while my Skoda, which was accidentally left unlocked, was not.
Thieves target the expensive cars because they’re worth more. It’s really that simple.
autoexec|7 months ago
They don't target the expensive cars. The most stolen cars in the US are cheap Hyundais And Kias. Before they claimed the top spot on the list of cars taken most often the winner was pick up trucks and old Toyotas.
Thieves target what's easy to take and easy to chop up and sell, not luxury cars with high resale value.
jodrellblank|7 months ago
and then they say "okay what if we consider everyone's sneakers all together, and how rarely they get stolen compared to cars" as if they've come up with a sensible comparison in complexity...
and then someone suggests "RedHat Linux" as an alternative to your car. Apparently they don't know what section of the world a car fits into, to suggest an alternative - but they're still convinced that you don't need a car and they are genuinely puzzled why more people aren't using "RedHat Linux" instead of cars...
... also only Ford make cars and the only real alternative is something completely different and then pay consultants to customise it and retrain your entire workforce at great cost and upheaval for little to no return, except hoping for an increase in security but not being able to prove same, or even clearly nail down what that means precisely.
notakio|7 months ago
But the numbers are the numbers in heterogenous environments, regarding security problems by platform. And if it rains perpetual Windows-based incidents on your security staff, and you don't consider the numbers when evaluating what you will and will not do, compute/services-wise, then you are statistically likely to see the same rate of incidents, at whatever cost that comes to the business, indefinitely.