an ominous comment

[Kurt Buff]

While I understand and share the sentiment, I'm beginning to wonder if
it might make sense to simply ask "why?", and keep asking that until
some straight answers emerge.

Because, as mothers everywhere ask "if some of your friends jumped off
a cliff, would that make it the right and smart thing to do, or merely
the popular and stupid thing?"

Kurt

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 8:52 AM,  <dan at geer.org> wrote:
> Discussing security policy post-OPM debacle in a setting to which
> I have access (sorry to be oblique), it was said by a CxO "We have
> to prepare for the day when no software we depend on is run on
> premises."
>
> I did not handle this well (think sputtering as an alternative to
> white rage).  At the same time, I am probably in a bubble in that
> I suspect that nearly everyone I see with a computer (of any form
> factor) is already in that situation or, save for Javascript piped
> in from the cloud to run locally, soon will be -- denizens of this
> list and a few others excepted.
>
> Echoing Lenin echoing Chernyshevsky, "What is to be done?" or,
> perhaps, "Is anything to be done?"
>
> --dan