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07/06/2005: "Interview with Marcus Ranum"


SecurityFocus has published a good interview with Marcus Ranum, "the Chief Security Officer of Tenable Network Security, Inc., the producers of the Nessus vulnerability scanner and a suite of security vulnerability management tools", by Federico Biancuzzi. In it, they talk about trends in computer security issues.

Some quotes:


  • If [a protocol is] broken, adding crypto just makes it broken and hidden.

  • Sometimes, patience is a terrific strategy. Wait and see what happens to the early adopters. If they're all getting hacked to pieces or spending tons of money on patches and upgrades and fixes to the stuff they bought - then it's not ready, yet.



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