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"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."
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"Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you."

"No matter how disappointing you believe your life currently is, it is never too late to start reshaping it to become an amazing testimony."

"Things don't only change, they also change you; sometimes for good, sometimes not."

"Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires."

"The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will."

"One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution."

"When we don't fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears."

"To change the world, the best thing that you can do is to accept changes with love."
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"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."


"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."


"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."


"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."


"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."


"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."


"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."
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