Why Darwin was right about IT security

There's a great cartoon out to be found out there on the interweb which shows the state of the IT security industry in 2002 as a bunch of folk with nets chasing after a relatively small fish, and then in 2012 as a couple of giant fish chasing those same net-holding folk. It's something of an exaggeration but, as with all the best satirical lampooning, there's an element of truth to it: the bad guys are no longer the hunted, in many ways they are doing the hunting.