I guess the real question is, How many more taxpayer dollars will be spent in a new R&D project to fix, reactively, what they could have easily fixed for a small sum, proactively? Innovation has never been the problem. The lack of foresight in predicting the innovation of others, however, has been a major handicap. I'm sure we all can agree that intelligence really has no bearing on geographical location. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Marcel Birthelmer wrote: >> Security through obscurity: the oldest joke in the security book. >> >> No surprise here that huge government organizations haven't got the joke >> yet. >> >> Very sad. > > Well, you can see where they're coming from. If obscurity is just that > much cheaper, and the risk (in their opinion) is worth it, then it's > not necessarily a bad decision. Adding secure channels where none need > to be would be overengineering, and this being the military, any > engineering effort is expensive. > So the point isn't that they were trying to be secure by being > obscure... the problem is that they didn't think they needed to be > secure at all. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist