Re: Wanted: hackers for tiger team (new england area)
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Mon, 10 Oct 1994 13:41:09 +22306356
On Sun, 09 Oct 1994 10:57:37 EDT, you said:
> One problem with tiger teams that I have difficulty getting through to
> clients on is that a tiger teams can not prove that the system is
> trustworthy. It can uncover holes in the security model, (when I do
> tiger team work, I get full details of the firewall/security
> installation), show that things aren't working as expected, but it
> doesn't prove that things are secure.
"Testing can reveal the presence of bugs, but not their absence" - E. Dijkstra.
Amen.
/Valdis