Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"[R]eal security is not something you build -- it's something you get when you leave out all the other garbage as part of your design process. Purpose-designed and purpose-built software is more expensive to build, but cheaper to maintain. The prevailing wisdom about software return on investment doesn't factor in patching and patch-related downtime, because if it did, the numbers would stink. Meanwhile, I've seen purpose-built Internet systems run for years without patching because they didn't rely on bloated components. I doubt industry will catch on." -- Marcus Ranum, in "Security in Ten Years" (a conversation between Marcus Ranum and Bruce Schneier ) [ thanks to vvalkyri for linking to it]

[To my friends celebrating Yom Kippur starting tonight, may you have an easy fast -- Gmar Chatima Tovah! And to doubleplus, happy birthday!]