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Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work
From: " ." <oscar.vives () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:33:12 +0100
On 14 March 2013 18:56, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/security-when-the-bad-guys-have-technology-too-how-do-we-survive/ Three words: "desktop gene sequencing", "ebola", "script kiddies". I dunno how to fix it either. Cheers, -- jra
This is a problem for the future to solve. Not us. In bioweapons, I think we are still on the "happy hackers era", where people in a biochemical laboratory in Liverpool have access to some fungus that can wipe half the city, but don't do, because have a lot of fun studying the fungus to learn new antibiotics, or maybe to cure baldness. Scientist are, of course, hackers. Fun people that make this question: Exploitability. Can this fungus be used to cure baldness? Can this fungus be exploited to remove plastic from our oceans?. Exploitablity is a fun good word, and I never see a person like Bruce Schneier talk about it (how fucking awesome is exploitability). So reading people like Bruce Schneier you only get half the picture. We exist only because the carbon based chemistry is exploitable to the x900000. If carbon where less exploitable, like silice, maybe life will not exist. Similary, maybe you need exploitability to have a internet. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.
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- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Miles Fidelman (Mar 14)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 14)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Owen DeLong (Mar 14)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Jay Ashworth (Mar 14)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Eugen Leitl (Mar 15)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 15)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 14)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Miles Fidelman (Mar 14)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 14)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Patrick (Mar 15)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Owen DeLong (Mar 15)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Reply-To: Patrick (Mar 15)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Jimmy Hess (Mar 18)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Jay Ashworth (Mar 18)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work David Walker (Mar 18)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Eugen Leitl (Mar 19)
- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Dobbins, Roland (Mar 19)