This is probably the smartest bit of computer security thinking I’ve read. In a nutshell, it proposes that instead of trying to monitor for events that are known to be bad, one specifically ignore things that are known to be harmless. It doesn’t guarantee that one will never be bothered by something uninteresting, but it does ensure that nothing that is interesting will be thrown away.
My name is Matthew Xavier. I live in Minnesota, read books, and write software (for fun and profit).
Many years ago at a friend's high school graduation, I spent an hour at a table with my brother and our band director. We were strange people. I ate one mint for half an hour, our band director made faces in his salad dressing, and my brother melted things in the decorative candle.
One of the things my brother melted was a plastic fork. He carefully heated it only just enough that the tips of the tines curled neatly into little coils. We examined it and decided that surely it was no longer good for stabbing people...or food. Thus was born the original safety fork: harmless, but useless.
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