{"id":1659,"date":"2001-11-29T08:12:34","date_gmt":"2001-11-29T13:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2001-11-29T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2001-11-29T13:12:34","slug":"making_sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/29\/making_sense.html","title":{"rendered":"Making sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Security has to make sense<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Peter Coffee’s eWeek<\/i> column makes sense, too. It’s almost too short to quote from, but it does a very nice job of noting why simply throwing security measures at a problem leads to greater problems of non-compliance and disrepect later on.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the worst thing about the post-Sept. 11 environment is the abandonment of cost-benefit analysis, or any analysis at all, in the rush to prove that one has taken every possible precaution. The result reminds me of descriptions of the Prohibition era: The rules become the problem, and people begin to sneer at both the rules and at those who bother to obey them.<\/p>\n

He also uses my favorite example of why the banning of pen-knives at various places these days makes so little sense.<\/p>\n

Read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Security has to make sense Peter Coffee’s eWeek column makes sense, too. 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