This humourous essay [PDF] on modern computer security, I thought would be an interesting read for SN; here's an excerpt.
Security research is the continual process of discovering that your spaceship is a deathtrap. However, as John F. Kennedy once said, "SCREW IT WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON." I cannot live my life in fear because someone named PhreakusMaximus at DefConHat 2014 showed that you can induce peanut allergies at a distance using an SMS message and a lock of your victim's hair. If that's how it is, I accept it and move on. Thinking about security is like thinking about where to ride your motorcycle: the safe places are no fun, and the fun places are not safe. I shall ride wherever my spirit takes me, and I shall find my Gigantic Martian Insect Party, and I will, uh, probably be rent asunder by huge cryptozoological mandibles, but I will die like Thomas Jefferson: free, defiant, and without a security label.
[Also Covered By]: Schneier on Security
(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Sunday August 30 2015, @08:50PM
experience, knowledge, and judgement
Of those, only knowledge can be taught. The rest you just have to pick up as you go.
The whole business of survival is hoping insufficient quantities of those three qualities do not kill you before you obtain a sufficient quantity of at least one of them.
By and large, the world is far more benign than most suspect, and people somehow survive long enough to procreate.
By and large computers and the internet are far more vulnerable than we think. Its a good thing most of our computers contain so little of interest.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.