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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 q.kontinuum on Monday August 31 2015, @05:58AM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Monday August 31 2015, @05:58AM (#230044) Journal

    Depends. If he finds a way to invoke "stand your ground" (e.g. by pulling his gun and afterwards having a reasonable feeling that AnonymousCowardNoMore might also pull a gun and shoot him), he might walk free? Or if he waits for nightfall and claims he perceived him as a black person? (If ACNM is actually black, that would of course simplify matters enormously, while things would get difficult if davester666 turns out to be black...)

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  • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:22AM

    by davester666 (155) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:22AM (#230697)

    He clearly provoked me by claiming that I would get some amount of money for killing him.