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:RootPrompt: Weakness and Security
RootPrompt: Weakness and Security
Aug 3, 2005, 05 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (3443 reads)

[ Thanks to Noel for this link. ]

"Security is hard. Security is very hard. It's hard because you have to do everything right all of the time and the enemy only has to do one thing right.

"Security is harder than the companies that are selling security tools lead you to believe. Over the years I have heard incredible promises from vendors on all sorts of things. Very few if any of these promises have been easy and pain free in the end as they were described in the marketing literature..."

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ZDNet: If Linux Ruled the World How Secure Would It Be?(Jul 16, 2005)
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