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> someone who doesn’t know or care how a system works shouldn’t be prescribing what to do to make it secure

The part that’s not said outloud is that a lot of “computer security” people aren’t concerned with understanding the system. If they were, they’d be engineers. They’re trying to secure it without understanding it.



Good computer security people are engineers.




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