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== '''Tom's Thoughts''' == | == '''Tom's Thoughts''' == | ||
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# Don't roll your own. (AKA: The first rule of cryptography.) | # Don't roll your own. (AKA: The first rule of cryptography.) | ||
Latest revision as of 12:49, 1 December 2016
Tom's Thoughts
- Don't roll your own. (AKA: The first rule of cryptography.)
- If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore
- If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it's not your computer anymore
- If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore
- If you allow a bad guy to upload programs to your website, it's not your website any more
- A computer is only as secure as the administrator is trustworthy
- Absolute anonymity isn't practical, in real life or on the Web
- Nuke it from orbit.
- It depends