Re:Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate?
by SigmundA on Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:04AM
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Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
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Hanlon's razor is just the worst.
Systematic incompetence is malice.
Here's my alternative but equally reasonable platitude: "Never attribute to incompetence what could be attributed to malice with plausible deniability."
That's a maxim I apply in general, but given that we know there are, in fact, known malicious actors purposely introducing flaws to security software, I think it might be a mistake to reflexively apply it here.