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[Danny Yee]

Mike Shearer wrote:
> I shall continue to be wilfully and deliberately ignorant.  I shall 
> continue to depend on other experts to protect me and to ensure that my 
> tools do not become dangerous in my hands.  

Indeed!  We do this everywhere else, so why not in IT?  I couldn't
personally check the engineering specs of every bridge I drive over,
even if I had the skills to do it.

And I'm a Linux system administrator, but even there I depend on
experts.  I have only the vaguest understanding of the internals
of the Linux kernel -- and on top of the kernel developers, I'm
dependent on thousands more people to maintain and secure all the
applications I run.

There are certain areas where people have to provide their own
security -- most notably "social engineering" attacks and scams.
But there's nothing peculiar to IT there.

Danny.
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