Daniel J. Bernstein on Nostr: Is there a name for the following failure pattern? (1) "Don't worry about flaws in ...
Is there a name for the following failure pattern? (1) "Don't worry about flaws in defense X: we have Y as another layer of defense." (2) "Don't worry about flaws in Y: we also have X." (3) "This real-world attack exploited flaws in X _and_ in Y? Nobody could have expected that!"
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