- It's all about who is in control
- Someone else is after the things you have
- An attacker can't steal things which aren't there to steal
- Everywhere can be attacked
- More complex systems provide more places to attack
- Attack methods are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal
- Only those you trust can betray you
- Holes for good guys are holes for bad guys too
- A system which is hard to use will be misused, abused and underused
- Security is a Boolean. [1]
- Items of data once publicly linked cannot be reliably unlinked
[1] Looking back in time from the future - did it work? Then it was secure enough. Can be hard to see that from the present though, and even from the future not all harmful breaches can be seen.
- Peter Fairbrother