Andrew Plato wrote: > > Crispin _is_ a professor, with a reasonably strong math background; it > > takes a proof to prove a theorem, but only a single counterexample to > > demonstrate it is incorrect. A single flaw in a piece of software > > demonstrates that any claim of the software's security is incorrect. > > And as such, Crispin's assertion is fine - for a math class. But running > an IT department is not the same as a math exercise. There are a lot > of aspects of building and maintaining a business and its technology > that do not conform to precise mathematical logic. > That's cute. Totally wrong, but cute :) I am actually well over to the practical end of the security spectrum. I don't know where you got the idea that what I'm saying here is in any way theoretical. If anything, you could say that I build solutions and Andrew deploys them. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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