[sclug] Personalised web content filtering

Stuart Ward stuart.ward at bcs.org
Wed Jun 22 14:13:55 UTC 2011


>>
>> By locking things down so much, your horse is going to get remarkably
>> pissed off as it is.
>
> Nada, sufficient security carries kudos (eg the guy who came up with the
> first pub key encryption scheme was not allowed to write anything 'work
> related' down outside of the complex he was working at he went home and
> simply thought about the idea and spooled the notes from memory at
> work). ?If the work is cool enough people will put up with heavy
> security measures (they will be disappointed if there aren't any)
>
Yes this is right, but the RSA team that reinvented it a few years
later published it in a paper. Theirs is the one we all trust and use
today.

Stuart



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