[JRandomFreeper]

Security = 1/convenience.

/johnny

[so_real]

The formula "security = 1 / convenience" is a formula I can understand. What I don't understand is what the advantages are to moving an organization's date "to the cloud" where hands unknown have access to it. I've heard people say "you don't have to invest in bandwidth or the knowledge base to maintain the systems". But that seems more like an excuse to be "dumb and lazy" as a company at the risk of leaking company information. Why the push to centralize to cloud locations rather than remaining distributed?

[Dr. Sivana]

Slight modification:

Security = (1/convenience)*(RND(10)-1) Where RND(10) is a function that generates a random # from 1 to 10. In other words. Increasing, inconvenience may or may not increase security. For example. Maxwell Smart has to go through 10 sets of automoatic doors, followed by dialing the correct number in a phone booth before he can enter CONTROL headquarters. But if he left a window open, the doors and phone booth provide zero protection against enemy infiltration. Password routines so complex that users resort to placing sticky notes on or under their keyboards show the "Laffer curve" of secure passwords. At some point you get worse results, not better.

[outofsalt]

Cloud = Fog*
* = miasma