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Re: "What is safe today will be hackable tomorrow"

But that is in fact the definition of "secure", to anyone who really understands security.

Anything that can be made can be broken, and will be broken, eventually. That includes everything from encryption to parking meters.

The real objective of security is to delay breaches long enough to mitigate them by other means (e.g. escape or obsolescence), not to prevent those breaches forever, because that is impossible.

That is the only sensible approach to security. Don't start by assuming it's infallible, but know absolutely that it will fail, then race to the next security measure before it does.

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