WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work

Fri Mar 15 12:16:24 UTC 2013

On 2013-03-15 12:33,  . wrote:
> Similary, maybe you need exploitability to have a internet.

Exploitability = usability from a different perspective.

Postel said "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you
accept", which seems like usability restated, and would QED this.

Granted, we think we've made something fairly usable: it's always
someone else's filter fail or multi-hour/day DDoS that ends up in the
news... until we get unlucky. ;)