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Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Mar 15 09:46:49 2013

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130315121623.GG7580@haller.ws>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:44:50 -0700
To: Patrick <nanog@haller.ws>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:16 AM, Patrick <nanog@haller.ws> wrote:

> On 2013-03-15 12:33,  . wrote:
>> Similary, maybe you need exploitability to have a internet.
>=20
> Exploitability =3D usability from a different perspective.
>=20
> Postel said "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you
> accept", which seems like usability restated, and would QED this.

Actually, it was "be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you =
accept."

Small nit, but does change the meaning a bit in this context.

Owen



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