From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <00d701c486b6$73917960$6400a8c0@americasgc.com> From: "Wes Kussmaul" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] datakit Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:06:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d793fee2-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > like many successors WS begins to make > some of the worst cursed predecessors start to look good: > a vast and growing collection of incomplete complexity, Quote from VARBusiness cited in a recent book ;): "Seek out security solutions that are complex and require additional software and hardware." Widget-driven economics and a military view of security encourage complexity. Journalists often assume that the complexity is unintended. It's not. It's a means to keep the customer down on the plantation and utterly dependent. > the curious thing about the rise of complexity this time is > that as far as i can tell, there seems to be no significant > counter-culture to it, as there has been in times past. Professional obfuscators and FUD-complexifiers get better at their craft, as we all do. They learn how to diminish the influence of their adversaries. > ``where you gonna go? where you gonna run? ...'' I know that ID-PKI appears to be a contributor to complexity. Done properly, it is just the opposite. Please take another look. > i say that in the hopes that someone will say: > it's just building up momentum over here ... It's building up momentum over here.