On Sunday 05 September 2021 at 14:46:34, tito via Dng wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 13:25:58 +0200 Antony Stone wrote:
> >
> > You can say the same about network firewalls (or almost any security
> > measure, in fact). Security is seldom aligned with convenience.
>
> Hi,
> Yes and this makes security lucrative and unquestionable.

Neither of those correlate with "not a good idea".

> Could program xyz be subverted to do things that are not written in his
> code or are unwanted then better fix xyz rather than add more code as
> watchdog.

Good idea to fix xyz (if you can), but also remember "security in depth".


Antony.

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