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biohacker42
on Jan 5, 2009
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Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney...
I can believe the "True geometric growth is hard to deal with period." argument when it comes to downtime.
But what does scale have to do with security?
wmf
on Jan 5, 2009
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More users -> more attackers -> more holes found.
Herring
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Attackers can only find holes that are there to begin with.
wmf
on Jan 6, 2009
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There are always holes.
Herring
on Jan 6, 2009
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Some architectures are more resistant than others. I suppose you could break into some air gapped military computers -- if you had a nuke.
why are we even discussing this?
sanswork
on Jan 6, 2009
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Or someone on your payroll on the inside.
Herring
on Jan 6, 2009
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Well that's universal. You can't exactly protect against someone who's also supposed to hold the keys to the system. Its more a feature than a bug.
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But what does scale have to do with security?