Interesting quote: Security tends to be... (February 21, 2005) Category: Quotations

Security tends to be the progeny of scandal. A few years ago, a bank in the Midwest USA purchased a hospital along with its medical records. It coolly compared the records against its personal bank accounts, and foreclosed on the loans of all account holders with a diagnosis of cancer. It was business-like, simple, ignorant, cruel, and an example of the damage that medical data can do in the wrong hands. Today computer ‘security’ is typically perceived to mean keeping hackers (those attempting unauthorized computer access) and other troublemakers from your private data. But what if such troublemakers are part of the system, or even own it? http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-851063-2.pdf

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