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swestrup ([personal profile] swestrup) wrote2005-09-12 11:19 am

Six Dumb Ideas

I just finished reading The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security. I went to read them with the expectation of them being nonsense, but I was wrong. In this case, I agreed with 99.44% of what the author had to say.

[identity profile] taxlady.livejournal.com 2005-09-12 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
These two cracked me up:

...of course if you're a reporter for CNN, anyone who can install Linux probably does qualify as a "brilliant technologist" to you.

and

"turd polishing"