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It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.
This piece from Clay Shirky isn’t new, but it’s sure still absolutely relevant. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LabqeJEOQyI?rel=0
The right question
“If you’re not asking the right question, then there is no correct answer.” Merlin Mann
The wrong questions
“ The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions.” Peter Drucker
Security utopia
The problem I’ve most often met in building secure systems is that this particular subject seems to bring out the utopian in people like no other. This ‘should’ happen, that ‘should’ happen, its unfair or wrong or wicked that such and such is allowed to continue. Well, yes. But what are we actually going to [...]
Security involves compromise
I was struck by how much this Bryan Lawson quote could actually be about security design decisions and tradeoffs. “Design security almost invariably involves compromise…. Rarely can the designer security engineer simply optimise one requirement without suffering losses elsewhere…. There are no established methods for deciding just how good or bad solutions are, and still the [...]
Trust comes from knowing….
” Trust comes from knowing, not from blind faith. And to know one must understand, and to understand one must have an intimate awareness of what conditions are truly present, what people do and what they don’t, how people do what they do and don’t.” Michael Gerber, “The E-Myth Revisited“
Churchill
George Bernard Shaw is meant to have sent Winston Churchill a pair of tickets to the opening night of one of his plays, saying “bring a friend… if you have one”. Churchill is meant to have replied, returning the tickets, “can’t make opening night. will make second. if you have one.”
