Here is a very good post of security guru Bruce Schneier on how we as individuals are good at evaluating risks: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/risk_intuition.html. We often hear that people do not follow rules because they do not understand risks and Schneier shows us that the error is to forget that we do not live in a world [...]
The Catalog syndrome The Catalog Syndrome is this special way of solving problems with only technology: we have a technology so no matter what the problem really was, it’s solved. Why spend a lot of time in analysis and thinkings about a problem when we can jump in a technology which is obviously made to [...]
Since a long time (does it come from the beginning?) IT approach is centered on functions, those classical beasts that are considered essential when analyzing the needs for our systems. It is so important that the term does not only indicate an abstraction used to model the real but it is the retained term for [...]
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