In Search of Secure Design

Hello Protocols, Packets, and Programs,

Every April I like to riff on the test given to Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner.

You’re in a repo, walking along in the code, when all of a sudden you look down –

It doesn’t make any difference what repo. It’s completely hypothetical.

You look down and see a design. It’s crawling toward you…

You reach down and you flip the design over on its back.

The design lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help.

But you’re not helping.

Why is that?

Happy birthday, Leon. I got you a tortoise.


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