, 2005-04-26
Paranoia is the key to success in the security world. Is it time to worry when other security professionals consider you too paranoid?
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Security for the Paranoid
2005-04-26
Anonymous (5 replies)
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Security for the Paranoid
2005-04-26
Anonymous (1 replies)
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Security for the Paranoid
2005-04-26
Jeroen Kemperman (2 replies)
Jeroen Kemperman (2 replies)

The cost of using your security is higher than the cost of being attacked successfully.
You should get psychiatric help.
When I imagine your home I imagine think iron bars on the windows, bullet-proof glass, an eight-foot cement wall with electrified barbed wire at the top and a pack of trained pit bulls roaming the yard that have been trained to respond to commands in either German or Thai(so that if a German or a Thai theif were to break in they could only command half the dogs to 'Sit'), redundant cameras covering every inch of the inner and outer portion of your house on an internal network protected in some God awful way, a robot controlled M-60 machine gun on the roof with infra-red sensors that fires Glaser safety rounds- you know, spoon-point rounds with liquid teflon in the 'cup' suspending #3 birdshot to inflict maximum trauma (just in case a lunatic on PCP attacks and just won't go down with a normal round unless you score a head shot. Not that I'm saying a PCP drugged looney is going to attack but I'm not saying a PCP drugged looney ISN'T going to attack).
Please get out of the security industry and go work at a kindergarten or something where by definition things can't be secure. Come to Thailand where I live and take a ride on a motorcycle taxi where the drivers go the wrong way down the street, cut across lanes of traffic or drive on the sidewalk regularly.
After awhile you just have to accept that things can't be totally secure no matter how much you want them to be. It's kind of liberating, not having to worry about it anymore.
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