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____/ Doug Mentohl on Wednesday 21 January 2009 15:57 : \____
> DDJ: A decade ago, you said that computer security, with all of its
> advances, would likely get worse in the future. Is this the way things
> turned out? If so, why? And what does this tell us about the next 10 years?
>
> BS: It has gotten worse. In all of computer science, security is unique
> in that it has completely failed almost all the time. There are a lot of
> reasons for this, but the most important is complexity. Complexity is
> the worst enemy of security ..
>
>
> .. another lesson of the past decade is that the encryption algorithm is
> not particularly relevant to security. Security is a chain, and the
> weakest link breaks it ..
>
> http://www.ddj.com/security/210605067
Sounds like Vista and its sibling Vista 7:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite
direction."
--Albert Einstein
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