Re: best defense (was: Re: Novarg

["Greg A. Woods" <woods () weird com>]

[ On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 09:30:07 (-0500), Meritt James wrote: ]
> Subject: best defense (was: Re: Novarg
>
> I disagree with Greg's statement and agree with Jonathan.  You cannot
> make something foolproof because fools are so ingenius.

For the record I didn't say one could make software foolproof.

I said that software designers should do their best to make dangerous
operations non-intuitive.

I also said that not running _known_to_be_vulnerable_ software in the
first place was still the _best_ defense.

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