Murphy's law and computer security
Wietse Venema
Mathematics and Computing Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands
Abstract
This paper discusses lessons learned from a selection of computer
security problems that have surfaced in the recent past, and that
are likely to show up again in the future. Examples are taken
from security advisories and from unpublished loopholes in the
author's own work.
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