“It’s always a people problem”

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A compromised personal email account, rather than broken encryption, lets outsiders hear an international law-enforcement conference call. Dr. Dave uses the incident to revisit an old consulting maxim he once thought too simple and now finds increasingly true: designers, programmers, operators and attackers are all people, and people remain the weak point.

2:46 · Consulting Philosophy

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Proposed recording date: 2012-02-25. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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