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Geer is a pretty salient guy. There are several gems buried deep in the text here: >> "For me, trust is the availability of effective recourse." That's a tidy
by avn2109 12y ago
Geer is a pretty salient guy. There are several gems buried deep in the text here:
>> "For me, trust is the availability of effective recourse."
That's a tidy little definition, and quite pithy. And this next one might apply to engineering in general (he brought it up in the context of "fast/good/cheap---pick 2").
>> "I think security engineering are [sic] about tolerable failure modes -- are about what the tolerable levels of failure are."
- tedunangst 12y agoYeah, this was far better than the linkbait title suggests. I very nearly passed because the title smells of obvious bullshit, but it's a substantial interview.
- contingencies 12y agoThanks for pointing those out. Added to my hacky color fortune clone (also converts to standard fortune format): https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
- shit_parade 12y ago>> " For me the default of "the data doesn't exist" seems more natural to me than trusting everyone to not abuse it." I disagree, the data exists, this is fundamental, we are not going towards data impoverishment, we are necessarily living in an environment rich with data. I rather have accurate data by far.
- UVB-76 12y ago> I disagree, the data exists, this is fundamental, we are not going towards data impoverishment, we are necessarily living in an environment rich with data. I rather have accurate data by far. It may be an inexorable trend, but for the time being, individuals and organizations generally have a choice about the amount of data they collect.