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It was a wonderful morning in Oslo today. Sky was grey. Clouds where colliding with the ground, creating that humid mist that makes it cold and uncomfortable. I woke up early as usual, listening to the sound the caretaker makes every morning, swiping the leaves off of the parking lot.

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This is a great read for anyone even remotedly interested in Information Security and the principles that relates to attack vs. defense. Most security people seems to forget that security is merely (and sometimes marrily) parts of "business as usuall", meaning security is never a means in it self, it is only there to sustain business. As such, there should be no chock that security is very closely related to economics, not to technology.

This paper was released in 2001, and is equally relevant today!

Go on! Read: Why Information security is hard - an economic perspective, by Ross Anderson.

Should you not like it, you are allowed to kick your own butt!