On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > We already have the term "snake oil" for a very different type of bad > security idea, and the term has proven valuable for quashing such > things. We need a term for this sort of thing -- the steel tamper > resistant lock added to the tissue paper door on the wrong vault > entirely, at great expense, by a brilliant mind that does not > understand the underlying threat model at all. > > Anyone have a good phrase in mind that has the right sort of flavor > for describing this sort of thing?
Chief Security Officer comes to mind... > Perry -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF I like the idea of belief in drug-prohibition as a religion in that it is a strongly held belief based on grossly insufficient evidence and bolstered by faith born of intuitions flowing from the very beliefs they are intended to support. don zweig, M.D. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]