From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20031007124103.J4625@cackle.proxima.alt.za>, Subject: Re: [9fans] 'wall' messages Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:39:08 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6727e12e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Jim Choate wrote: > Users can't trust the OS, they can only trust the group running it, or > not. A fundamental and basic security flaw that has let more than one > hacker into a system. And will continue to do so until people get burned > enough to realize that 'trust' -only- applies to people, never things. ... Sheesh. People are things too. > This is one advantage, security through obscurity, ... That is an abuse of the term "security through obscurity", originally introduced only as a label for a failed idea, not as a recommendation.