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Original post provide by Slashdot: ITtalkinsecurity writes “Earlier this week Peter Tippett, chief scientist at the ICSA and the inventor of the progam that became Norton Antivirus, had some interesting things to say about the state of the security industry. In a nutshell, Tippett warned that about a third of the work that security departments do today is a waste of time. Tippett goes on to systematically blow holes in a lot of security’s current best practices, including vulnerability research/patching, strong passwords, and the product evaluation process. ‘If a hacker breaks into the password files of a corporation with 10,000 machines, he only needs to guess one password to penetrate the network, Tippett notes. “In that case, the long passwords might mean that he can only crack 2,000 of the passwords instead of 5,000,” he said. “But what did you really gain by implementing them? He only needed one.”‘ Some of his arguments are definitely debatable, but there is a lot of truth to what he’s saying as well.”
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