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Many will read this section and believe it to be a simple take on the
security world, but the solutions do not have to be complex in nature.
We are not reworking networks and corporations here, or taking
the world back in time to the start of the industrial revolution—the
powers-that-be do not need me to do this; they are doing a pretty
good job of that by themselves.
In my planning of the content for Security De-Engineering, the
decision as to whether I should include details of potential solutions
was a tougher decision to make than I could have imagined. From one
side, I do not really want to write a book that purely talks about prob-
lems and discusses nothing about sol ...