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Not really getting your point. All but "having enough money" are actually good advice to not getting robbed. E.g. if carry around a golden Rolex and/or the newest iPhone you are much more likely to get robbed than if you have no watch and a $150 Android device in your hand. And most people don't carry around all their money for exactly the reason to not lose too much.

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Except UNLIKE the Rolex analogy, the recommendation is not "do not carry your role" it is more akin too "do not own a Rolex". Or more directly, "avoid the problem by not having enough resources to own a Rolex".

True but now there's a separate danger with botnets. Now, instead of saying "don't own a Rolex" it's "don't own any silver, because that could be used to make a knife and steal someone else's Rolex."

With botnets like Mirai, innocent networks need to protect themselves not to avoid getting attacked themselves but rather to ensure that they don't participate in an attack against someone else.

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