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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday August 30 2015, @05:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the security-is-overrated dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:58PM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:58PM (#229987)

    Exactly what I thought. Oh the irony. I'm not downloading THAT!

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