Noam Eppel is back with Community Comments & Feedback to Security Absurdity Article, a follow-up article to his Security Absurdity: The Complete, Unquestionable, and Total Failure of Information Security (from May 2006). I thought Noam was right on in the first article. One only has to look at the security bug counts, SPAM in their inbox, Phishing messages, user apathy, increase in “cyber-crime”, bot nets, DDoS extortion, and stolen credit card numbers to get a feeling that something isn’t working right. The second article examines how the first was received. On one hand, most of the security professionals that I respect agreed with his perspective. Others did not seem to understand the issue.

One interesting piece of the article was a section on Microsoft’s Vista. It seemed out of place and didn’t flow with the rest of the article. I also feel his praise for Vista might be premature at this point.

It is a thought provoking article.

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