From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 14:30:11 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
If you don't secure every transaction, you are merely playing a
gambling game with statistics.
### Life is a gamble with statistics.
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This is not real security, and not
likely to prevent attacks.
### Real security does not exist and it is impossible to prevent all
attacks.
---- Even if it works 99% of the time, the attackers just keep retrying until they get through. ### If it works 99% of the time, it means 99 out of 100 bad guys get burned - this is likely to reduce their numbers substantially over time, especially measured over evolutionary timeframes. "Trustworthiness" is intimately related to a long rack record and a stable personality, which evolved because it benefited both the carrier of the requisite genes and memes, and the societies with the right conditions for its development. ---------- Also, security saves money rather than costing money. Blocking a single 9/11 magnitude incident would pay for a lot of security. ### Trying to block a surprise attack on an arbitrary target using unknown methods by unspecified forces would bankrupt any economy and turn any political system into a nightmare. There is always a complicated and uncertain trade-off between security and efficiency, and denigrating the concept of trust ignores this fact. Rafal
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