Comment on On cryptography and dogmasparentComments−nknight14yIf my first exposure to the world of cryptography and information security had involved someone like that, I'd have written them all off as arrogant quacks to be ignored.−khafra14y...and then your customer's credit card info would have showed up on an FTP server in Romania six months later.−nknight14yWhich is exactly the point. He may or may not be "right", but he serves absolutely no one's interests by being a jerk about it.
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If my first exposure to the world of cryptography and information security had involved someone like that, I'd have written them all off as arrogant quacks to be ignored.
...and then your customer's credit card info would have showed up on an FTP server in Romania six months later.
Which is exactly the point. He may or may not be "right", but he serves absolutely no one's interests by being a jerk about it.