Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher. — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them. — Gene Spafford Copy Share
Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights,… — Gene Spafford Copy Share
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them. — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
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