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by cqqxo4zV46cp 934 days ago
Anybody (like GP) that doesn’t understand that this is entirely the nature of security work, should not be making any material decisions about security.

The number of times I’ve seen DEVELOPERS neglect to implement materially useful security measures because “they’re not technically perfect!” Is astounding.

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The number of times I’ve seen purported security practitioners dismiss materially useful security measures because of some theoretical attack that nobody has ever seen in the wild in recorded history outside of stunt-hacking at Defcon is…probably higher