If you have ever done any security work; and it did not involve the concept of 'network of trust'; it wasn't security work, it was masturbation.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Security work lacking a trust network is ineffective.
- In plain terms
- Security needs a network of trust.
- What can you take from it?
- Build trust relationships for real security.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is a trust model unnecessary?
- How to design security without explicit trust?
Another view
Not all security contexts rely on trust networks.
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