Experts vs "Fresh-Look" Outsiders in Security and Beyond

A very fun article by Rich Mogul touches upon the subject of "entrenched" expert view vs a "fresh" outside view. The outsider view advantage is an intensely tempting, popular and easy-to-acquire-while-hard-to-shake IDIOCY (!). Rich further points out that ...

"In security if you think:

• You’ve invented a new, unbreakable encryption algorythm
• You just created a new, unbreakable defense against 0day attacks
• You perfected any single tool, at any layer, that can stop any attack, of any kind
• You built something to eliminate the insider threat
• You can take a couple classes and defend a large enterprise
• You have designed unbreakable DRM

You’re wrong."

Amen to that! :-)