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Rhetological Fallacies
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:57:55 -0800
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/ In security, for some reason, we run up against false reasoning an awful lot. (This is somewhat separate from the psychological factors affecting "reasoning" that makes human beings so terrible at risk assessment.) Hence, we tend to pass around lists of the common mistakes people make in logic, discussion or argument. This page is a fairly comprehensive set, roughly divided into categories. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org I'd have done better just believing everything I was taught when I was young! At least I'd only have been wrong once! This way I'm wrong all the time! - `Wings,' Terry Pratchett victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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