Good and bad people say “something needs to be done.” The difference is that bad people think “no matter the cost” while good people always keep in mind that change alone isn’t “good” as such. It can always be to the worse.
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Balancing Security
3. October, 2014For your IT security, you want
- Security
- It must be cheap
- And comfortable
Now choose at most two.
As always in life, everything has a cost. There is no cheap way to be secure which is also comfortable. Home Depot chose “cheap” and “comfort” – you’ve seen the result. Mordac would prefer “secure” and “cheap“.
Those example show why the answer probably is “secure” and “comfortable”. Which means we’re facing two problems: “cheap” is out of the question and the two contradict each other. Secure passwords are long, hard to remember, contain lots of unusual characters (uncomfortable the first time you travel to a different country – yes, people there use different keyboard layouts). Turns out there is a “cheap” part in “comfortable”.
Taking this on a social level, the price for security is freedom. To quote Benjamin Franklin: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” I don’t know about you but I feel bad about terrorists dictating us how much of our freedom we have to give up.
In a similar fashion, you can either punish criminals or prevent future crimes but you have to choose one. We have learned through bad experience (witch hunts, flaws of the US penal system) or good (like the Norwegian system) that punishment doesn’t always help nor does it make victims happy. Which leaves us with the only conclusion: We, as a society, pay money to prevent future crimes because that’s the most reasonable thing to do.
Even if it leads to people mistakenly attribute modern penal system as “holiday camps.”
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Let Not RIP Aaron Swartz’ Legacy
8. February, 2013Aaron Swartz is dead. There is no arguing the fact, we can only disagree why he died.
His girlfriend says: “I believe Aaron’s death was caused by exhaustion, by fear, and by uncertainty.” (source)
I, too, get the feeling that the world is turning from an adult into a child again.
When does someone stop being a child? When they realize that actions have consequences and that they have to take responsibility for their every action. Some even realize that you have a responsibility for your inactions as well but that’s probably too much to ask for most people.
So as soon as you refuse to take responsibility for your actions and start denying the consequences, you must be turning into a child again.
What are the consequences of incarceration of almost one percent of the whole population? Is adding more rules to a broken system the adult or the childish way out?
A lot of people argue in favor of the death penalty when there is no indication that any of the arguments is supported by facts. Isn’t it typical childish behavior to refuse to listen something you don’t want to hear?
Let’s all grow up again.
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