> There are those who say the same is true of the IT security industry: > that we don't address the root problems because the problems keep us > in business. We know that isn't true.
Do we? While I know it isn't true of me personally, I feel sure it is true of some fraction of IT-sec people (though I also suspect that fraction is quite small) but is it true of the industry? I don't know. Organizations often exhibit epiphenomenal behaviour very different from and not directly traceable to the behaviours of the individuals making them up. > [...] I don't think there is a single soldier on the planet who > wouldn't give significant parts of their anatomy to bring Bin Laden > to justice. Even if restricted to "the West", I doubt that's so; there are enough soldiers that I feel reasonably sure there are at least a few who really don't much care either way - and substantially more, enough to speak of them as a fraction rather than a count of invidivuals, who just want him dead and justice (FWVO "justice") take the hindmost. Not that I'm happy about either. :-/ (I'm fairly lawfully aligned, and that includes a strong belief in rule-of-law....) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
