Re: Your thoughts on my network security.

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 01:50:10 +0100, Sebastian Gottschalk
<seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Osiris wrote:

You don't have state secrets on your machine, do you ?

What's that stupid question supposed to mean?

I have to spell everything ?

You're imposing something like "oh, it's not so important, maybe you should
leave away some security measures". This is blatantly dangerous. A proper
attitude would be to always practice and use the same strong security
mechanisms regardless of the situation - thus you'll never have to think
about if it's actually worth it, but therefore you can't make any wrong
decision towards weaker security.

bull
limiting factors are, amongst others:
1: price,
2: effort to be invested
3: knowledge to be acquired
4: value of data
5: time = money
To ignore these factors is blatantly stupid.

For the common scenarios non of these are any hard limits, and are alomost
negligible. Paying attention to usually irrelevant factors is blatantly
stupid.

As as example: passwords (creation, usage, management). Now tell me which
of these factors is reasonably relevant.

silly man. spending your entire monthly income on securing your home
MSN-pc....
silly man, not understanfding that there are no hard limits in life...
Silly man, not understanding the concept of satisficing...

If only you could be introduced to the silly and wonderful life
outside of Usenet....

Is there hope, we might wonder...
.

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