Perry E. Metzger wrote:
We need a term for this sort of thing -- the steel tamper
resistant lock added to the tissue paper door on the wrong vault
entirely, at great expense, by a brilliant mind that does not
understand the underlying threat model at all.
Anyone have a good phrase in mind that has the right sort of flavor
for describing this sort of thing?
In a similar context, Whit Diffie once put up a nice
graphic: A cozy little home protected by a picket fence.
he fence consisted of a single picket that was a mile
high ... while the rest of the perimeter went totally
unprotected.
So, unless/until somebody comes up with a better metaphor,
I'd vote for "one-picket fence".
I recognize that this metaphor is not sufficiently
pejorative, because a single picket is at least
arguably a step in the right direction, potentially
a small part of a real solution.
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