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Distributed Security

Posted by Hemos on from the lock-down-everything dept.

A reader writes: ""Where Schneier had sought one overarching technical fix, hard experience had taught him the quest was illusory." A long and detailed article at The Atlantic Online on why Bruce Schneier has come down from his strong cryptography tower to preach the gospel of small scale, ductile security against the popular approach of broad scale, often high tech security that often proves to be very brittle."

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  1. Security is only useful when not distributed by JanusFury · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're the only person who is secure, then you're the only one who's safe.

    If everyone is secure, then nobody is safe, because someone will figure out a way around everyone's security.

    'distributed security'... what an oxymoron. :)

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