[17585] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: WYTM - "but what if it was true?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Kaminsky)
Mon Jun 27 09:34:29 2005
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:28:08 -0700
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
To: dan@geer.org
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20050624212510.9E9971BF906@absinthe.tinho.net>
>If you are insisting that there is always
>a way and that, therefore, the situation is
>permanently hopeless such that the smart
>ones are getting the hell out of the
>Internet, I can go with that, but then
>we (you and I) would both be guilty of
>letting the best be the enemy of the good.
>
>
A reasonable critique.
It is not necessary though that there exists an acceptable solution that
keeps PC's with persistent stores secure. A bootable CD from a bank is
an unexpectedly compelling option, as are the sort of services we're
going to see coming out of all those new net-connected gaming systems
coming out soon.
--Dan
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