Sun Microsystems’ chief security officer: Microsoft has spent the last five years fixing security problems that maybe could have been foreseen. Security is always political. Security is a fair price to pay for growth, Diffie says. Diffie: I believe in privacy, but privacy is just one of many things necessary for it necessary for a democratic society. Privacy of political privacy is essential for its a very squishy concept. In small communities, you have very little information about yourself, but you have little accountability.”]
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