Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> The following was published some days ago in APC Magazine.
>
> Microsoft man says too much security is bad thing
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> | Steve Riley, senior security strategist at Microsoft said that too
> | much security was a bad thing and when the cost of mitigating the
> | risk outweighs the cost of that which you are trying to protect,
> | it all gets a bit silly.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41573
The only thing about security that is "silly", is Microsoft's perception
of it, as illustrated above with Ridley's misconception that security
strategy is quantitative rather than qualitative. It's not about the
number of layers, it's about the implementation. *nix has security
properly implemented at its foundation, where it belongs, not in some
slap-on afterthought like in Windows.
> Microsoft mindset:
>
> Passwords: just another bureaucratic annoyance
>
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> | This was told to me, along with examples of other security policy
> | lapses, by an IT consultant who works for government agencies.
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>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/passwords_just_another_beauroc.html
The "mindset" boggles.
> It is a good thing that Linux is spreading.
Yes, thank God.
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K.
http://slated.org
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