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by TeMPOraL 842 days ago
> 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.

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The software in question is currently doing nothing.