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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Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org
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