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Re:Protecting Against Leakers by naterator on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @07:47AM (#6282860)
If we take Schneier's example of the bank president and the ATM, you could easily argue that is a flawed philosophy. Every day I go to the ATM, money comes out. Like clockwork, very efficient.
Re:Protecting Against Leakers by bruceboughton on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @08:03AM (#6282911)
Because bank's principal job has been running ATMs for 40 or 50 years and it is run-the-bank stuff. If you look at internet banking (and how out of date and clumbsy most of these systems are) you will see this effect. Change-the-bank stuff is what "suffers" from this.

Retail banks' ATM and overnight payments systems are often 25-year-old pieces of software and hardware.

Re:Protecting Against Leakers by rdl on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @07:50AM (#6282874)
Multi-party controls and generally complex technical controls add minimal overhead relative to benefit in large organizations working on static systems; they're horrible in small companies working on rapidly changing products. (Imagine a tiny startup where you have a 4 week change control process for every modification...)