[113707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IXP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sat Apr 18 20:28:00 2009
In-Reply-To: <20090418201114.2c9cb6d8@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:27:50 -0700
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
wrote:
> I'm taking no position on the underlying argument; I'm simply stating
> that simplicity is an essential element for security. I like a
> philosophy I've seen attributed to Einstein: "everything should be as
> simple as possible, and no simpler".
>
Agreed -- and that reminds of the Dr. Who Maxim: "The more sophisticated
the technology, the more vulnerable it is to primitive attack. People often
overlook the obvious."
Also, Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common.=94
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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