Comments on: Why Information Security Is Hard http://www.riskbloggers.com/kurtseifried/2007/10/why-information-security-is-hard/ Security Wisdom Ahead of the Curve Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:31:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Richard Bejtlich http://www.riskbloggers.com/kurtseifried/2007/10/why-information-security-is-hard/#comment-3652 Richard Bejtlich Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:43:13 +0000 http://www.riskbloggers.com/kurtseifried/2007/10/why-information-security-is-hard/#comment-3652 "If we can get to the moon with 60’s technologies we should certainly be able to prevent people’s personal information from being sold in IRC chatrooms." I think putting a man on the moon may have been, in social terms, one of our worst accomplishments. Since then, any intractable problem (war, poverty, etc.) is compared to the moon landing. Live is risk because vulnerability and threats are everywhere. When someone has "solved crime," then we can think about "solving security." Obviously I think this will not happen. “If we can get to the moon with 60’s technologies we should certainly be able to prevent people’s personal information from being sold in IRC chatrooms.”

I think putting a man on the moon may have been, in social terms, one of our worst accomplishments. Since then, any intractable problem (war, poverty, etc.) is compared to the moon landing.

Live is risk because vulnerability and threats are everywhere. When someone has “solved crime,” then we can think about “solving security.” Obviously I think this will not happen.

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