Overconfidence make you successful in business. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2188148/Sir-Alan-Sugar-effect- Overconfidence-make-successful-workplace.html
Not just confidence, mind you, *over*confidence. Add in the Dunning-Kruger effect: http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/06/the-dunning-kruger-effect-why-the- incompetent-dont-know-theyre-incompetent.php ... and the Peter Principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle ... and you start to realize why all those huge banks keep failing ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org Security, like correctness, is not an add-on feature. - Andrew S. Tanenbaum victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ 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.