On 18 March 2016 at 22:49, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk> wrote: > I haven't yet been in the job long enough to figure out the reasoning behind > this software labyrinth.
There isn't one. The sad fact is that most people in C21 IT are incompetent. They don't understand systems in any real depth, not throughout -- modern systems are so baroquely complex that almost no-one can. So there are rituals, done without understanding, and a superstition that enough levels of firewalling and virtualisation and encryption, if built from recent code, especially *expensive* recent code, magically combine to make it secure. It's nonsense and totally untrue, but alas, such systems hold the world together now. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
