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Posted by Hemos on Monday August 12, 2002 @05:58PM 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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Dick Brown is the man by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-12 18:00 · Score: -1, Troll

EDS RULES

FIRST POST
cock n' balls by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-12 18:03 · Score: -1, Troll

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DICK BROWN RULEZ TEH FIRST POST ASSCLOWN by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-12 18:06 · Score: -1, Troll

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First Fuck!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-12 18:38 · Score: -1, Troll

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article a tad information poor by Pretzalzz · 2002-08-12 18:50 · Score: -1, Troll

I have to say I spent nearly half an hour reading the article, only got half way through. Then I started skimming, then I realized that that wasn't getting me anywhere so I gave up after realizing that it seemed like the same three sentences were being repeated over and over a couple of hundred times. It is comforting to know from the first couple posts that noone else managed to wade through it either. That or the people who are actually bothering to read are still reading, but then again this is /. It was particularly funny to see a poster suggest retinal scan technology which the article calls subtractive security. The current technology is so easy to beat that it actually makes you less secure than if you didn't use it and forced someone to crack the password.