Comments on: The only way to win is not to play http://www.securitycurve.com/wordpress/archives/446?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-only-way-to-win-is-not-to-play Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Walsh http://www.securitycurve.com/wordpress/archives/446/comment-page-1#comment-102 Chris Walsh Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:15:25 +0000 http://securitycurve.com/wordpress/?p=446#comment-102 Your father sounds like quite a guy. Of course, the corollary to his observation is that whenever someone doesn't use calculus in their argument, they are trying to put one over on you, but perhaps I am too cynical ;^) People, primarily economists, have been using these analytical mechanisms to study equally complex behaviors for many years. There are plenty of ways to criticize their approach, of course, but if we in infosec are wrong to use game theory, then at least we're in good (?) company. Your father sounds like quite a guy. Of course, the corollary to his observation is that whenever someone doesn’t use calculus in their argument, they are trying to put one over on you, but perhaps I am too cynical ;^)

People, primarily economists, have been using these analytical mechanisms to study equally complex behaviors for many years. There are plenty of ways to criticize their approach, of course, but if we in infosec are wrong to use game theory, then at least we’re in good (?) company.

]]> By: Ed http://www.securitycurve.com/wordpress/archives/446/comment-page-1#comment-101 Ed Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:04:15 +0000 http://securitycurve.com/wordpress/?p=446#comment-101 Adam, You're right, that was probably phrased wrong. I guess my point is that in each of the given categories, security comes out harder to analyze than other types of problems. For example, non-zero-sum games are harder to analyze than zero-sum games, asymmetric games are harder to analyze than symmetric games, infinite games are harder to anlyze than finite games, and so on. So, I guess it should be "harder" rather than "hardest". :-) -E Adam,

You’re right, that was probably phrased wrong. I guess my point is that in each of the given categories, security comes out harder to analyze than other types of problems. For example, non-zero-sum games are harder to analyze than zero-sum games, asymmetric games are harder to analyze than symmetric games, infinite games are harder to anlyze than finite games, and so on. So, I guess it should be “harder” rather than “hardest”. :-)

-E

]]> By: Adam http://www.securitycurve.com/wordpress/archives/446/comment-page-1#comment-100 Adam Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:57:00 +0000 http://securitycurve.com/wordpress/?p=446#comment-100 Hmmmm...They can't *all* be hardest to analyze. Hmmmm…They can’t *all* be hardest to analyze.

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