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What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Building genuinely secure computer systems is incredibly difficult. You might even be in systems/software and be thinking "yeah it is hard", but to be really secure it's 1000x harder than that. So everything you use off the shelf from any vendor is a massive compromise and has holes in it. But on the other hand most people don't need really secure systems.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't a true air gap pretty solid though? Aside from someone actually coming into your house and interfacing directly it would be pretty hard to bypass, or am I on Mt. Dunning-Kruger over here this time?

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You are correct.

The uncomfortable part is what I've learned about the challenges to gain physical access.

Most physical security is equally appalling to most Cybersecurity.

Edit: Incredibly unfun exercise: pick a physical security device you rely on, personally, and do a YouTube search for "device name break in test". I've rarely been able to find a video more than 3 minutes long, for any product, at all. And the actual breaking is usually mere seconds in the middle bit.