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Re: Interesting bit of a quote
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Wed Jul 12 09:47:55 2006
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:32:28 -0500
From: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
To: "Adam Fields" <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>
Cc: "Leichter, Jerry" <leichter_jerrold@emc.com>,
"Richard Stiennon" <richard@stiennon.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 7/11/06, Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:02:27PM -0400, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> > Business ultimately depends on trust. There's some study out there -
> 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.
Quoting Ross Anderson's TCPA comments:
A trusted [entity] is one that can break your security.
Quoting John Carrol in Computer Security:
Just because it is trusted, doesn't mean it's trustworthy.
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