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If the original author is reading, those are George Orwell's "pithy maxims", not Allen Short's, but entertaining usage on getting a Big Brother reference into a
by moneypenny 14y ago
If the original author is reading, those are George Orwell's "pithy maxims", not Allen Short's, but entertaining usage on getting a Big Brother reference into a security/trust context.
- devinj 14y agoGeorge Orwell wrote them, but Allen Short was the person who applied them in that way to a security context. Much of the post is apparently greatly due to Allen Short, so he deserves some mention.
- abecedarius 14y agoFor what it's worth, I applied "freedom is slavery" and "ignorance is strength" to programming back in the 90s in a rambly post on my website. I don't know if Allen ever saw it, and security wasn't much on my mind back then. (We're acquaintances, I admire him, and I'm glad to hear of this talk.)
- maxerickson 14y agoI think you are aggressively misunderstanding the attribution here. The maxims being referenced are the ones about code ('input is an attack', 'small interfaces'). The pithy is writing them in terms of Orwell.