WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work

Fri Mar 15 00:05:31 UTC 2013

On 2013-03-14 13:56, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/security-when-the-bad-guys-have-technology-too-how-do-we-survive/
>
> Three words: "desktop gene sequencing", "ebola", "script kiddies".

When the costs of offense fall, a pretty good response is to drive the
costs of defense through the floor. E.g. how do we drive the costs of
mitigating DDoSs down further?

A second best response would be ubiquitous surveillance....