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Everyone wants a "Manhattan Project" for their own pet technology. The real MP was building technology that they theoretically knew was possible. Most modern
by danielweber 12y ago
Everyone wants a "Manhattan Project" for their own pet technology.
The real MP was building technology that they theoretically knew was possible. Most modern calls for an MP are "just throw a lot of money at this thing," which is how it works in games like "Civilization" but doesn't actually in the real world.
From TFA:
A real Manhattan Project for cyber would draw together some of the greatest minds of our time, from government, academia, the private sector, and civil society
. . . who would proceed to bitch at each other endlessly. I firsthand saw what should have been a nice cordial introductory meeting turn into an hour-long shitstorm about which person at the table invented the term "firewall" (since more than one of them had claimed credit).
- mattybrennan 12y agoExactly. The manhattan project was throwing money and brains at a specific idea, knowing it was theoretically possible and a game-changer if it worked. What's the Cyber Security equivalent?
- ams6110 12y agoI don't think there is one. Cybersecurity requires pefection. The old saying that to keep systems secure you have to win every battle with your attackers, but the attackers only need to win one. I think we're fundamentally doing it wrong. We work to try to make things more secure, but perfection is not possible for humans. We need to accept that complex computer systems and networks cannot be secure. And find ways to make them useful dispite that.
- Pxtl 12y agoA fully audited LAMP-equivalent stack and and a similarly-audited computer to run it?