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sliverstorm on Sept 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: VPN Encryption

"Failsafe" is unnecessary. Come on, we call ourselves engineers here, right? A cardinal rule of engineering is to not let "perfect" get in the way of "good enough".

duaneb on Sept 23, 2013 [–]

Yes. I perhaps should have said that price for granted security scales exponentially.

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