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Say you bought a car from someone. They give you their word that it runs. It runs for awhile but then something breaks. You have no idea why so you take it to a
by thenerdhead 4y ago
Say you bought a car from someone. They give you their word that it runs. It runs for awhile but then something breaks. You have no idea why so you take it to a shop and they find a number of reasons it could be faulty. After many days and countless dollars later you finally find a root cause.
Say you bought a car and this time they gave you an itemized receipt of every part in that car and the current condition of each part. It breaks down. Now when you go to take it in to a shop to investigate, you may correlate a specific defective or unmaintained part as the reason. You replace that part and move on with life.
You’ve saved time, energy, and got plenty of peace of mind.
You do not trust who you got the car from, that largely doesn’t matter. Because now you have to deal with real problems owning that car can bring.
- remram 4y agoThis is a fine analogy for accidents. I am talking specifically about security.
- thenerdhead 4y agoIt wouldn’t be far fetched to include in the same analogy any known safety recalls or provenance of where you got the part. You may just have a different definition of security here. Best of luck.
- remram 4y agoSafety != security.