The small guy has neither choice.

And there's where you're wrong again.

It's the cost of doing business plain and simple. If you can't include security as part of your budget and still make a profit, you've got a bad business plan.

It's just as wrong to cheat on security costs as it is to cheat on paying Uncle Sam his share. If you wouldn't even dream of the latter, why are you even debating the former?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker