Re: WEEPING FOR WEP

["Robert Allinson" <allinson.robert () gmail com>]

Security is not a state.  It is a practise.

On 4/6/07, Bruce Ediger <eballen1 () qwest net> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 neal.krawetz () mac hush com wrote:
>
>         ...
> > moderate risk) environments, you need to remember: security is a
> > measurement of risk. If the threat is low enough, then WEP should
> > be fine.
>         ...
>
> Wait just a minute.  Do you propose to say that "security" is an economic
> good, with associated opportunity costs and benefits?  But just the other
> day, all the anti-virus vendors and trade rags in the world seemed to
> say that "security" was binary, and "on" is the preferred state.
>
> What the sam scratch is going on around here?  Do I have to make a
> tradeoff,
> again?
>
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