Blogging for Grades

[scarfman]

What do you think is more important in regard to computer use:
A free environment? or
A secure environment?

Briefly support your opinion from what you've learned so far this semester

As one of them creative types I'm tempted to say freedom. Communication is freedom, man! Word, sword, mighty! Ideas gots to flow! Information wants to be free! Expression is the need of the soul! The man can't keep you down as long as you got the straight dope! You can't stop the signal, dude!

But your medium of expression has to be secure. If there's one thing this course has taught me, especially the bits about social engineering, it's that no system is unbreakable. What's the good of propagating the revolution on your website if its server can't stand up to the hacks it attracts?

Maybe freedom and security are antitheses but, like most sets of opposing forces in the world, a balance between them must be struck for the most benefit to be realized.