CFP when?!

Oh absolutely! We often fall into the trap of chastising obviously negligent behavior (unpatched hosts on the internet!) but sometimes lose sight of the scale and complexity of the challenge.

I would genuinely love to hear these authors opinions with an understanding of modern day cyber threats!

Although I’m viewing this from a practitioner point of view instead of a historical one so maybe I’m missing the point. Unfortunately some folks point to similar sentiment to demonstrate the field has failed, but the challenge is similar to “let’s stop war”..

I’d argue saying the same thing isn’t effective and doesn’t account for reality. Issues have moved from abuse of trust to identification of malice to exploitation of process over the years, and while these quotes evoke a cosy nostalgia they don’t really demonstrate much except human naivety

Hash collisions are irrelevant within the context of referencing a sample with a description in an immutable data source (a book), so go with MD5 for space reasons.

I have no idea why people always bring collisions up in similar discussions.