“Be natural and yourself and this glittering flattery will be as the passing breeze of the sea on a warm summer day.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
“Windows NT is much worse. The operating system is an example of completely ignoring security lessons from history. Things that are in the kernel are defined as secure, so smart engineering says to make the kernel as small as possible, and make sure everything in it is secure. Windows seems to take the position that since things in the kernel are defined as secure, than you should put everything in the kernel.”
― Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
― Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
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“Silencing the noise around them, they could finally hear the quiet voice they needed to listen to.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
“Security is hard; while you can show that a particular algorithm is weak, you can't show that one algorithm you don't know how to break is more secure than another.”
― Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
― Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
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