Principle Number One: There Is No Such Thing as a Secure Computer

This should be evident to most people in computing. By now, every operating system, browser, or application that is exposed to the Internet has been taken to task by malware or attacks perpetrated by using some feature or bug in the product. Like life, computing poses risks depending on what we do, where we are, when we do it, how we do it, and perhaps even why we do it. Our job in information security is to correctly gauge that risk and do what can be done to mitigate it. At the same time, we have to keep in mind that there is no such thing as a secure computer. Computers are more or less securable, though, and the security of the information stored on them (or transferred by ...

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