Information security
“One of the major problems in information security is that individuals, and many corporations, cannot tell the difference between good and bad security products. This means that in market terms the companies that invest in developing quality products are unable to compete with poor products that are lower priced.”
An interesting point about information security from a British Computer Society/London School of Economics talk by Bruce Schneier. Summary here.
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