Schneier Explains the Mind of Security Professionals
Maybe now I can stop referring to myself as "paranoid" and just use the term "Security Professional" instead. In a Wired.com essay, Bruce Schneier writes how security professionals just think differently. While engineers try to figure out how to make things work, Security Professionals think about how to break them.
For example:
SmartWater is a liquid with a unique identifier linked to a particular owner. "The idea is for me to paint this stuff on my valuables as proof of ownership," I wrote when I first learned about the idea. "I think a better idea would be for me to paint it on your valuables, and then call the police."And it's simply thinking in this way that would prevent a lot of bad products (like smart water) from ever being developed in the first place.
Tags: Paranoia, Security