[Info-vax] Now you have way more things to worry about

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
>Thinking about it some more, isn't all security obscurity?

No.  Take physical security for instance.  Everybody knows where the computer
center is.  They just don't want to deal with the armed guards at the entrance.

>Isn't encryption obscurity?

It often is.  Sometimes encryption depends entirely on knowing a key that
other people don't know.  But it isn't always, and it's usually a whole 
lot better when it isn't.

Kevin Mitnick says that one out of every three whiteboards in offices have
a password on them, it's just a matter of figure out where it is and what 
it's a password to.
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."