Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Security in Context

We often like to make philosophic arguments that is impossible to be completely secure. Well, yes. This is obvious. To be secure in an absolute sense is impossible, just as being completely rich, or completely full, is literally impossible. About the only thing you can be is completely dead (D:< BRUTAL). So really, arguing about whether or not it is possible to be completely secure is nonsensical. The "black swan" problem shows this. You may identify every white swan possible, but there always exists the one you can't. So we have to put this in an arguable context, or else the question is abusive and has no way to argue two sides of the question. The question is unanswerable. So yes, the infinite nature of possible threats makes full security impossible, considering anything can be perceived as a "threat."

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