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Re: Interesting bit of a quote
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Tue Jul 11 17:00:55 2006
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:05:11 -0400
From: Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>
To: "Leichter, Jerry" <leichter_jerrold@emc.com>
Cc: Richard Stiennon <richard@stiennon.com>,
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:02:27PM -0400, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
[...]
> Business ultimately depends on trust. There's some study out there -
> I don't recall a reference - that basically finds that the level of
> trust is directly related to the level of economic success of an
> economy. There are costs associated with verification, some of them
> easily quantifiable, some of them much harder to pin down. The
> difficulty is in making the tradeoffs. We're now pushing way over
> on the verification side, in a natural reaction to a series of major
> frauds and scandals.
Trust is not quite the opposite of security (in the sense of an
action, not as a state of being), but certainly they're mutually
exclusive. If you have trust, you have no need for security.
Personally, given the choice, I'd rather have trust. I think that this
is a distinction that could be made more often when deciding on how to
implement a security system.
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