[cap-talk] stars aligning for coyotos beta?

Mark Miller erights at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 19:48:21 EDT 2007


On 4/27/07, Toby Murray <toby.murray at comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> The comment in that article that security is a "fire extinguisher
> industry" seems to support Schneier's arguments since it reminds me of
> the parallels between it that of Ka-Ping Yee in "Firefighters and
> Engineers" ( http://zesty.ca/pubs/yee-firefighters-acmi200605.pdf ).
>
> Ping points out that security will remain a fire extinguisher industry
> so long as we continue to build software the way we currently are.
> Fortunately, coyotos is a great example of how it might otherwise be
> done.


Wow. Ping, that's a great essay! Short, clear, vivid, and powerful.


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