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Re: solving the wrong problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.A. Terranson)
Sat Aug 6 22:41:02 2005
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Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 21:25:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> We already have the term "snake oil" for a very different type of bad
> security idea, and the term has proven valuable for quashing such
> things. We need a term for this sort of thing -- the steel tamper
> resistant lock added to the tissue paper door on the wrong vault
> entirely, at great expense, by a brilliant mind that does not
> understand the underlying threat model at all.
>
> Anyone have a good phrase in mind that has the right sort of flavor
> for describing this sort of thing?
Chief Security Officer comes to mind...
> Perry
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Yours,
J.A. Terranson
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