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> Can an innovative environment produce a trusted computing system?
If the constraints are accepted beforehand, sure.
Great innovation happens under (and often in response to)
the most constrained conditions.
Related: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030908.html
(third heading down, "[Misconception:] Usability Kills Creativity")
> Can we 'do the simplest thing that will possibly work'
> and still produce a secure system.
Unlike usability, considering *trust* issues as you set out to design
will usually preclude the simplest thing from being done.
Where we often get into trouble is throwing such all-encompassing
constraints onto an already-built system. No matter how low your
"iteration cost", if you've inadvertantly carved security out of
the final product, you're not going to pump out a secure version
next week. Too much would have been ignored by that point.
- Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:18 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Managing Innovation
A little thought experiment, a bit lighter than
the complexity thread, but also, a bit related
in that the management of uncertainty comes into
play.
Read this:
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3687&t=innovation
Then answer the question:
Can an innovative environment produce a trusted computing system?
In short, the market demands innovation AND security. Can we
'do the simplest thing that will possibly work' and still produce
a secure system.
len
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