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Distributed Security
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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>> The US has killed over 800 innocent afghani civilians in their "war on terror". In my book
>> thats just as bad as killing 800 american citizens.
Prove to me that America was intentionally trying to kill innocent civilians, and I'll listen to you.
I know this country is far from perfect, but people get killed in war. No matter how good a system you have, innocent deaths are inevitable.
And if you try to use that as an excuse for war, then you're just begging for Jack Warlord to take over this country because we won't fight back.
Trying to minimize civilian deaths is always a good thing, but at this time, they cannot be minimized to zero. However, the intent is there...the intent to kill as few innocents as possible.
Terrorists, on the other hand, go after civilians with the INTENT to kill them. They're killing innocents simply to create fear.
I don't know about you, but to me, that counts as evil.
I mod down anyone who uses M$ in their posts. I like to live on the edge.