Cynical Security

What you will find here are the uncensored views of someone who has been dabbling in security for a long time and sadly finds himself agreeing profoundly with Ben Laurie: "why do I bother?". When in a good mood there are plenty of constructive, even positive, answers to Ben's question. Sadly most of the time we are firefighting down in the depths of our machine rooms, oblivious to the fact that it might be worth fighting for a lost cause like computer security. What follows is that security people need to let off the steam which accumulates and occasionally they come up with something worth saying. Most of the time they don't, they are like crying drunkards banging their heads in desperation and solving their problems by getting deeper into security that nobody will ever read or care about.

January 27, 2003

Smart people, smart thoughts

Lifted straight off a posting by Ben Laurie on the open-source mailing list: the opinions and presentations at a Software Security Workshop.

A ten minute read which should cause (in those with a predisposition to such activity) about two week's worth of thinking.

Posted by arrigo at January 27, 2003 04:21 PM