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I'm not sure it's mathematically possible to reduce your attack surface to 0.
by JoBrad 10y ago
I'm not sure it's mathematically possible to reduce your attack surface to 0.
- Ygg2 10y agoSure it is. Just take your computer, put it in a furnace, turn it to ash and bury it couple of feet in the ground. Now its attack surface is 0.
- allendoerfer 10y agoYou would first have to verify the furnace and the "turn it to ash" process.
- bluejekyll 10y agoAnd the ash itself has to be perfectly random, otherwise someone could reverse the burn and reconstruct the computer.
- nimmer 10y agoSee "perfect solution fallacy"
- hyperpape 10y agoIt's not a fallacy if you're responding to someone who says "we absolutely must have a perfect solution"
- wtbob 10y agoFWIW, I'm not saying we must have a perfect solution: I'm saying that we have to build systems which make the implicit failings of their imperfect solutions explicit. As an example, it is impossible to build a system which gives one person access without permitting that person to lend that access to others: we need to acknowledge that rather than pretend it's untrue.