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Subject:    Re: [sleuthkit-users] Doubt............ when revocer...?????
From:       Simson Garfinkel <simsong () acm ! org>
Date:       2008-10-23 18:52:09
Message-ID: DC3C15F9-9ECF-4A3E-BF49-9BC8BCFF0B29 () acm ! org
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Robert-Jan,

Agreed. I remember when I was a freshman at MIT, I couldn't understand  
why computer software had bugs and security faults. I thought that  
computers were mathematical objects and, as such, that the algorithms  
they ran had all be proven to be correct. I had the same confusion  
when I encountered networking two years later.

These days, though, most people in our society get so much exposure to  
buggy software, you would think that they would assume that programs  
do not work as they are intended. Yet human wishfulness continues  
along, and people expect their tools to be bug-free even when there is  
plenty evidence to the contrary.

On Oct 23, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Robert-Jan Mora wrote:

> Hi, Simson,
> Thanks for the thesis on the wiki. I know and you're correct. I only  
> wanted to show the benefits of this stable carver above those false  
> postives generators out there. Kloet and I gave a presentation in  
> 2007 about this called 'how much evidence are you ignoring'. What we  
> found very alarming on hearing back from the users is their trust in  
> commercial tooling.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Robert-Jan Mora

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