Reply to post: Re: Define "security"

GCHQ pushes for 'virtual crocodile clips' on chat apps – the ability to silently slip into private encrypted comms

Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Define "security"

At the conceptual level, security *is* binary.

It's only when you try to achieve that in reality that it falls short.

It's a bit like trust. Conceptually that is also binary, you can either trust someone or you can't.

In reality it's a bit more vague and it depends on what you are trusting someone for. Trusting a friend to return your car after borrowing it is one thing, trusting them to manage your bank accounts is another.

So here we have GCHQ, a known abuser of trust, asking us to trust it again. In response I would like to quote a well known security maxim back at them..

'Trust, but verify'. Until we have a cast-iron method of verification that their powers are not being abused then there simply cannot be any trust. At least not from those with a modicum of security training.

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