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Re: Comments Universal Design review of WSC Draft

From: James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:23:27 +1000
Message-ID: <46790E2F.2040606@echeque.com>
To: Chris Drake <christopher@pobox.com>
CC: "Close, Tyler J." <tyler.close@hp.com>, public-usable-authentication@w3.org

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Chris Drake wrote:
 > 1. This is a security issue - thus one should be
 > familiar with Bruce
 >    Schneir and his work in order to put forward
 >    suggestions. In short - It's well known and
 >    documented that "security issues" cannot be "broken
 >    down" into smaller areas.  To summarize the reason:
 >    almost all security problems are born at the
 >    junctions of "broken down" components.

Quite so.

You repeat the points I made some considerable time ago,
and I suppose other people have made similar points from
time to time, without any apparent impact.
Received on Wednesday, 20 June 2007 11:23:43 GMT

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