13Oct2009 (UTC +8) On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 22:25, Oscar Plameras <[email protected]> wrote: > Doubt is a big thing. > > The opposite of doubt is trust, of course. That's what is lacking in Pinas > TRUST. I'm sad to say but it's now part of our culture.
It's not just Pinoys. It's not just *our* culture. It's human nature. I lived in different continents, in different cultures, where your hair and skin color is different, as well as the language you speak, the food you eat... I found out that trust is precious asset that *must* be earned. > There's no sense of TRUST. Everyone is untrusted. Nobody trust anyone. > Cynicism is the word. And unfortunately we mix cynicism with everything we do, > including when we develop software because it's in our culture, our > unconscious > self. We try to incorporate checks that's akin to preventing someone trying to > cheat the system. And our system becomes too complicated and we lost the > main objective of the system and what it is trying to accomplish. I've > seen this all. The context of "trust" above is related more to the definitions made by social scientists, not computer science. For that, I digress. Back to the COMELEC AES, trust is not computed or evaluated as a binary operation. There are different levels of trust, so that's why there are different levels of assurance requirements. The less trustworthy a system is, the more efforts are needed to gain trust. Drexx Laggui -- CISA, CISSP, CFE Associate, ISO27001 LA, CCSI, CSA http://www.laggui.com ( Singapore / Manila / California ) Computer forensics; Penetration testing; QMS & ISMS developers; K-Transfer PGP fingerprint = 6E62 A089 E3EA 1B93 BFB4 8363 FFEC 3976 FF31 8A4E _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
