Playing whack-a-mole is losing

CLOSURE I want to juxtapose two classes of people in the security industry on the defender side of security engineering for products. The first are the Security as Identity people. This goes back to the security-as-counterculture attitude, glamorized in Hackers and dating back to phone phreaking. It reflects Thompson’s “Workism”, where work is not just a way to earn a living, but a way to build a ...