Bruce Schneier on fighting security FUD
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| If your job is to specify and create a security solution for your
| organisation, how do you neutralise the emotion and FUD (fear, uncertainly
| and doubt) to build the solution you want?
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| The only way to overcome it is through information. You have to counter
| people's natural reactions, their default ways of thinking. You need to make
| people stop and think about what they're doing. Sure it is hard but people in
| those positions do this all the time. In businesses, it's going to be easier.
| If you get it right, your business is more successful and you get more
| profits. So there's an incentive to get it right.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/Feature/4180,bruce-schneier-on-fighting-security-fud.aspx
Microsoft's Open-Source Plan: WAMP Instead of LAMP
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| Pragmatically, open-source companies have to work with Windows. At the same
| time, though, any Linux business executives must keep in the forefront of
| their minds that Microsoft will never be a friendly partner. Actually, forget
| that, Microsoft has always been, is now, and always will be a hostile
| partner.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9835741530.html
Related:
Make vendors liable for bad code says expert
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| When U.S. courts ruled more than a decade ago that consumers weren't
| liable for fraudulent use of their credit card numbers after the
| first US$50, credit card companies -- which were left holding the
| huge bill -- took notice and dove into fighting fraud and losses.
|
| That's the same approach needed now in the software industry to
| help drastically improve IT security, according to Bruce Schneier,
| a security expert, author and CTO of U.S.-based enterprise security
| vendor BT Counterpane.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2064310434&rid=-50
[Schneier:] Why Spam Won't Go Away
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| Honestly, there's no end in sight. In early 2004, Bill Gates stood
| up at the World Economic Forum and predicted the end of spam within
| two years. Last week, The New York Times reported that spam has
| doubled in the past year and now accounts for 90% of all e-mail
| messages.
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http://www.forbes.com/security/2006/12/11/spam-security-email-tech-security-cz_bs_1212spam.html
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