Re: Security vs. Simplicity

[Daniel Miessler <daniel () dmiessler com>]

I think a good guideline to go by here is Einstein's comment on simplicity:

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to
make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible
without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single
datum of experience."

This often paraphrased to: "make things as simple as possible, but no simpler."

So, find your essentials, and design using those things. Don't take
them out for the sake of simplicity, but try to avoid adding to them.

-- 
Daniel R. Miessler
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