The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)
> "We can't stop the occasional problem" - yes, you can. Would you travel on commercial airliners if you thought that the aviation industry took this approach with your life? I didn't think so.<p>This person has a fundamentally mistaken idea of how airliners and, therefore, security systems as a whole work. Yes, airliners have the occasional problem. That's why they have:<p>* checklists and inspections, to catch them beforehand<p>* communications, to catch them while they're evolving<p>* redundancies, to turn ramified problems nobody caught into annoyances instead of disasters<p>No matter how some people whine and moan, "Just Be Perfect" fails to be an actionable plan.<p>Also: Hackers will be cool as long as DRM and planned obsolescence/designed-in insecurities exist.