TechRepublic: You have no privacy (or security), so get over it

As long as people build our software, security may be an illusive dream. Matt Asay explains.

By Matt Asay
July 20, 2015

Adultery has always been a precarious act, but it became even more so this past week as pro-infidelity site Ashley Madison was hacked. Ironically, the hackers, who have threatened to release all personal information on users of the site, weren't so much incensed by the infidelity as Ashley Madison's privacy policies.

Welcome to the wonderful world of (in)security. Or, to paraphrase former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, "You have zero security. Get over it."

Unfortunately, enterprises are overestimating their ability to secure their data, even as they paper over years of buggy code. No amount of security software can overcome poorly architected code.

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