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by bradleyjg 842 days ago
Why are we shipping software that’s hard on the outside and soft on the inside? We know our customers have employees that will be socially engineered. Heck, let’s not be smug, “we” have employees that will be too.
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> software that’s hard on the outside and soft on the inside

So are tanks. And so are humans.

Security is opposite to usefulness. If you harden your system thoroughly to the limit of possibility, it becomes a rock. Systems are made to do something, so some parts need to actually do that thing.

The software in question is currently doing nothing.