an ominous comment

rysiek rysiek at hackerspace.pl
Wed Jul 22 00:46:59 PDT 2015


Dnia poniedziałek, 20 lipca 2015 19:40:52 Steve Kinney pisze:
> On 07/20/2015 05:53 PM, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
> > I hold multitudes.  I am in one thread totally cypherpunk, and
> > have been for a very long time.  There are innumerable ways to
> > compromise and be compromised for all kinds of good and mostly
> > bad reasons. Perfect protection is tough for in many ways and
> > we should keep striving to get closer to that ideal security
> > stance.
> > 
> > On the other hand, life is a balance.  I probably shouldn't
> > have tried to make the point here, but it is something a
> > security professional should understand well: The right amount
> > of security should be moderated by the tradeoff of costs vs.
> > overhead vs. maximizing benefit vs. minimizing loss.  Security
> > stances change over time and aren't necessarily accurately
> > reflected by paranoid absolutism.
> 
> Right you are, in "security" context is everything.  My take on
> the Cypherpunk Way is, start with design concepts for maximum
> security (!= absolute security), then trim the security
> constraints back just enough to permit useful work to be done on a
> cost effective basis.

This should also be the case with privacy. Start with maximum privacy and trim 
down if absolutely *needed*.

-- 
Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

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