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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on IT Security: Maxims for the ages ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bears]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Just like, I do not have to out run the bear, I just have to out run the next guy; security countermeasures do not have to be prefect or infinite, they just have to be better than the next guys.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ericcase]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:22:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hmmm! Two of those maxims...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sound like 75% of the people I see on ZDNet discussions, the third one, is what I would do to them if they worked for me. Which probably wouldn't be for long.Having once been in the nuclear artillery, I can see much about the way it really was in his wisdom!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:37:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dang, that sushi gets expensive doesn't it?....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Anyway, I always thought it went exceedingly well with sushi. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:21:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Interesting that no one]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[has noticed that Sidney Fudd, is actually a fictional character.He came up with this law when he accidentally pushed his wife down the kitchen stairs.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Jay]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:32:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[huh?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is that anything like how the original drummer for Spinal Tap died?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pgit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:10:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks, Palmer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading the maxims and could associate with most of them.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:38:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: IT Security: Maxims for the ages]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-318130-3173336]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Great article.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[palmer.howard@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:40:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well said]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems that the professor has significant real-life experience and is gifted in being able to put it to words.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:48:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That is why security will always be a catch-up game.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:45:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ahh sake]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Did you go to that favorite place of yours? Hope you will be OK in the AM.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:44:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am glad]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For people like that. I have been known to do some really dumb things.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:42:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You are exactly right]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well said.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:40:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Neat perspective]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From an intelligent person that works for the government.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:40:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I got his book and am looking forward to reading more of the same.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:39:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Murphy's Law redux]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The story about Col (or Cpt, or Lt) Murphy is apocryphal.  The only thing we know for sure abut Murphy's Law is that it was not propounded by Murphy, but by another man with the same name.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Murfski-19971052791951115876031193613182]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:38:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Murphy's Law]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since Murphy's Law is the basis of the entire universe, EVERYTHING has a bit of Murphy's Law in it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Murfski-19971052791951115876031193613182]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:34:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ha]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Billions for defense, but not one cent for defense, if it doesn't involve blowing $#!+ up. A very excellent find indeed, Michael.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:46:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No idiot can do it wrong]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[bah.. I've seen more than one battery with spring pressing on the wrong end of the cylinder. It doesn't take away from your comment; was just the thing that came to my sake fueled evening.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:08:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The &quot;Show Me&quot; and &quot;Backwards&quot; Maxims]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[reflect one of the fundamental rules that are taught in all schools of business:  &quot;If it ain't broke, don't fix it.&quot;A fundamental fact is that &quot;anything which increases cost directly decreases profit&quot;.  In the same vein, one of the principles of finance is &quot;A dollar today is better than a dollar tomorrow.&quot;In my observation and experience, all three of these are in practice often contrary to creating and implementing effective security measures, even when the cost/benefit ratio is favorable.  No manager wants to spend money unless they must, because evaluations of their competence -- and their compensation as managers -- depends upon whether the enterprise produces as much profit as possible, as quickly as possible.The Irresponsibility Maxim is right on the mark, as is the Scapegoat Maxim:  &quot;The main purpose of an official inquiry after a serious security incident is to find somebody to blame, not to fix the problems.&quot;That said, I am not confident that the following maxim is substantially true:&quot;Yippee Maxim: There are effective, simple, &amp; low-cost counter-measures (at least partial countermeasures) to most vulnerabilities.&quot;What we really need are measures to detect whether our security measures are, in fact, effective.  Whether our security measures  are sufficient, probably only experience will reveal.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ocie3]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:41:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[According to John Dvorak]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[the original version that became known among engineers as Murphy's Law was the conclusion of an accident investigation that was conducted by US Army Air Corps Colonel Aloysius J. Murphy:&quot;If it is possible for someone to do a job wrong, then someone will do it that way.&quot;This became the inspiration for designing a process or a piece of equipment to be &quot;foolproof&quot; or &quot;idiot-proof&quot;.  For example, it might be possible to insert a bolt or pin into or through a hole or slot in only one direction.  It won't go in, or fit, if it is inserted any other way.  Another example is batteries which have a &quot;snap&quot; component on one end.  You can't put them in backward, because they won't fit, so the positive pole of the battery will always be correctly snapped to the positive wire in the circuit, and the negative end of the battery will be correctly touching the plate that is connected to the negative wire of the circuit.  Any fool can install the batteries correctly.  No idiot can do it wrong.This perspective is often applied in the context of designing safe equipment and processes, but it is unclear whether and how it can be applied to security per se.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ocie3]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:37:45 -0700</pubDate>
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