Ivan Krstić
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:07:31 -0700
On Jun 30, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
One of the most interesting things I find about most fields is the fact that people who are incompetent very often fancy themselves experts. There's a great study on this subject -- usually the least competent people are the ones that feel highly confident in their skills, while the people who aren't have more doubts. One sees this very phenomenon on this very list, and not infrequently.
Indeed:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon_effect>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect>
How security non-experts screwed up security in systems like WEP and
PPTP is no mystery to me. How, on the other hand, a real expert at
_anything_ feels comfortable entering another hard technical field
without screaming for assistance is something I don't get at all.
That a roomful of network experts designing 802.11 didn't hold hands and all together chant "bring us a good cryptographer" with such maniacal monophony as to rival any Gregorian choir makes me highly suspicious about their supposed expertise with _networks_.
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