Don't you hate it when people say "ah, security is just like X", with X=rand() :-) Here is another amusing one: "security is like a human immune system."
It his post, Chris @ RationalSecurity slams a post of Richard Stiennon on that very subject ("The human body is a good metaphor for the way security should be.")
It is kind of hard to argue with parts of it (like "You hardly ever notice when your body is attacked because the majority of attacks are warded off." and, ideally, security should fit that too), but admittedly security should not fail the same was the immune system fails, since it is not pretty...
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...yeah, and I suppose the internal politics and in-fighting are quite true of necratising fashitis, or whatever it's called or spelt. i.e. the flash eating disease casued by anti-biotic resistant bacteria.
You've got the brains, you've got the technology, but the selfish-gene always puts a spin on things, and undermines everything. When it rears it's ugly head.
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