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RE: "Safest ever" passport is not fit for purpose
From: "David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:33:17 -0000
They are still this stupid/dump/blind after all this time?
I know very little about this specific project, but I suspect that you're listening to the first cuckoo of spring. Or perhaps a bureaucract recycling the assurances of a third party supplier. The essential driver here is that it's political suicide to give any credence to the possibility that a high profile public project is not in every sense perfect. My forecast for the mid-term future is along the lines of either an under-publicized switch in suppliers or a shelving of the project disguised as deferral, but realistically it probably has to be the former. The least likely outcome is a public admission that the customer specification/underlying concept is in any way flawed, but it may be that some of the conceptual holes will get a dab of Polyfilla along with a change of provider. -- David Harley Security Author/Editor/Consultant, Antivirus Researcher Small Blue-Green World dharley () smallblue-greenworld co uk New botnet book: http://www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4270 Security Bibliography: http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk/pages/bibliography.html Articles: http://watersidesyndication.com/inbusiness/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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