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Strange Things from the Intarweb

Physical Security Maxims (by Roger G. Johnston), Excerpt

• Infinity Maxim: There are an unlimited number of security vulnerabilities for a given security
  device, system, or program, most of which will never be discovered (by the good guys or bad
  guys).
• Arrogance Maxim: The ease of defeating a security device or system is proportional to how
  confident/arrogant the designer, manufacturer, or user is about it, and to how often they use
  words like “impossible” or “tamper-proof”.
• Ignorance is Bliss Maxim: The confidence that people have in security is inversely proportional
  to how much they know about it.
• Schneier’s Maxim #1: The more excited people are about a given security technology, the less
  they understand (1) that technology and (2) their own security problems.
• Schneier’s Maxim #2: Control will usually get confused with Security.
• Low-Tech Maxim: Low-tech attacks work (even against high-tech devices and systems).
• …

Src: http://www.ne.anl.gov/capabilities/vat/seals/maxims.shtml resp. http://www.ne.anl.gov/capabilities/vat/pdfs/security_maxims.pdf

Quote of the [arbitrary time period]

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
— Aldous Huxley