Sunday, December 10, 2006

Test Every System

No human system is ever perfect. There are inevitably loopholes, almost always in the places where human minds seldom venture to think. The problem of "unbeatable" systems is that the encompass so much of common human trains of thought that very few people will ever muster the effort and creativity to actually beat them. There are also other systems that imply some very real penalties to those who try to beat them, and so people never do try at all.

Simply put, if everyone were to put in a bit of effort to prod at unpleasant systems at least once, and in previously unthinkable ways, it is highly probable that the systems will continually be beaten even though they have been repeatedly patched. It's such a simple thing, but it will prevent systems...or authorities...from consistently having the upper hand over everyone else...or the users.

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