Mark Post wrote:
If your management chain, all the way to the top, isn't willing to fight
stupidity, the poor technicians have no option but to bend with the wind.
Which is why the open source community exists. Which is why Linux
exists. Which is why Linux did not,
could never have, emerged from the classic corporate environment that is
VM's natural home.
Which is why I reflexively snarl I hear about fools masquerading as
computer security personnel handing
down such guidelines. They do to Linux like Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s story
about the bureaucracy in charge
of putting lead weights on the ankles of ballerinas so the ballerinas
wouldn't make less talented folks
look bad.
The problem for you with these security charlatans working from
checklists is that
* they /don't actually make //anything more secure/
* they /munge systems/ out of /sheer ignorance/ of the architecture
* they /stifle productivity/ by creating busywork for you
I have peered the glass house environment, but never really grokked it.
It seems to regard under-achievement as a /virtue/.
--
Jack J. Woehr # «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find
http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or
http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'» - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_
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