Blaming the Victims of Security Breaches

re:Blaming the Victims of Security Breaches

TrackBack — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:36:00 GMT

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TrackBack — Fri, 20 May 2005 01:14:00 GMT

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TrackBack — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 08:38:00 GMT

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re: Blaming the Victims of Security Breaches

debshinder — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:45:00 GMT

You buy a car. You hear on the news that you have to do things to maintain your car. Your car tells you that you have to maintain it. Professional drivers also tell you to maintain your car.

Despite all this, you don't maintain your car. It blows up. Worse - something happens whilst driving it and you cause significant financial loss (hopefully not - but actually physically hurting yourself/others).

I know! The car manufacturer or the car dealer that sold you the car is at fault - because they sold you something shoddy that doesn't heal itself.

The same car that I bought in 1948 is not running the same as the day I bought it.

re: Blaming the Victims of Security Breaches

debshinder — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:01:00 GMT

I particularly like the statement (paragraph 6) that "security and accessibility are on opposite ends of the continuum". When I was working as a consulting engineer to the U.S. Air Defense Command there were multiple layers of security in place to keep a missile from being fired in error. As the launch sequence became more complex the probability that we could purposely fire a missile when we actually wanted to was drastically reduced. We used to joke, only partly kidding, that the only completely safe missile was one that was impossible to fire under any circumstances. It all comes down to the skill of the operator. It doesn't make any difference if it is a ground to air missle, a 1911A1, or a computer system. Skill and judgement are what makes the difference, but no matter what the outcome it is the perpetrator that is the problem, not the victim. Those who argue otherwise are a bunch of idiots.