Re: [therightkey] Will the real RPF please stand up?

2012-02-04 Thread Matt DeMoss
As security engineers, our role is to (a) reduce the number of entities we trust; (b) reduce the extent to which we trust the remaining trusted entities; and (c) determine the trustworthiness of trusted entities. A system with voting like Convergence (depending on configuration) has the nice pro

Re: [therightkey] Why the focus on The?

2012-02-04 Thread Kyle Hamilton
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 01/27/2012 04:02 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote: Why is everything so single-point-of-failure in the Security working area?  Does it really have to be? You seem to be suggesting that we should be considering redundant, corroborative c

Re: [therightkey] Why the focus on The?

2012-02-04 Thread Kyle Hamilton
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I think we should focus on identifying problems at this stage. I agree. 1) We need to figure out what we're really trying to do. I think it's an attempt to improve the detection rate of impersonation fraud, in an attempt to r