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No, that's protection. Security is about foiling attacks.
by pritambaral 9y ago
No, that's protection. Security is about foiling attacks.
- coldtea 9y agoBy preventing attacks I meant preventing them from being successful -- not preemptively preventing them from happening. Besides, select "foil", right click "Look up": (OS X Dictionary): prevent So, not a native speaker, and there might still be some nuance of preventing from even being considered (avert?) in "foil", and you could be technically correct. http://static.damnlol.com/media/5c5c06b2d9e1d4e9b66725f86dab099c.jpg http://static.damnlol.com/media/5c5c06b2d9e1d4e9b66725f86dab...
- pritambaral 9y agoI meant the difference between protecting your data from destruction and securing your data against exfiltration. The former is trivially defeated (just breaking the phone, for example, is much quicker and less involved than forcing a factory reset), and not what we were talking about.