Security also brings with it the connotation of secrecy. Something that is secure also has to be kept a secret. For example, you have a high-end security system at your office and only you can enter a particular cabin using your access card and others cannot get in without having similar permissions or access rights on their access card. Now, quite obviously the company maintains the coding and the technology behind this card system a secret. The Company knows the code is secure and no one out there will know.
Not quite right. What the Company is doing here is closing itself to the possibility of someone cracking their secret. As a result the technology is perceived as indegenious and quite affirmatively even leak proof. The problem with this is that, if someone can crack into this technology and crack the code, there are limitless possibilities of fraud and guess what? The company will never know what is happening.
Off late the concept of security is being revisited. There is a need to make a technology more publicly accessible so that possiblities of fraud become more easily detectable. Its good for the technology too as upgrades, enhancements become the order of the day.
Friday, October 17, 2008
A second look at the so-called concept of Security
Thursday, October 16, 2008
About Software package and Welfare schemes: A Weird but relevant post
There are some uncanny similarities between a welfare scheme announced by a ruling party for the people and a software package.
A software that one purchases typically has a lot more features than what we actually know or what we end up using. Many features are such that we know about them but hardly use them for our needs. An average user of any software is likely to be using about 30 to 40 % of the features; will be aware of about 60% of the features; will find about 20% of the features not useful to them.
A welfare scheme is designed for a very big pool of people, sometimes may include the entire middle class population of the country. Some people do not want the scheme at all, some find it useful only to some extent, some find it useful and may well use it but are not eligible for it. And finally, many are either not aware of it and even do not know where to get more information.