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Trade-offs with abstractionPeter A. H. Petersen has written two weblog posts on abstraction and security: The points he makes echo a theme dear to my heart: abstractions offer the programmer compositionality of construction when creating their programs and systems, but that notion of compositionality does not match all of the properties one needs to ensure that a system is secure. Cf. slogan #2, from my story The irreducible physicality of security properties: Postscript — Before someone mentions it, Joel Spolsky wrote something quite relevant: The Law of Leaky Abstractions By Charles Stewart at 2009-07-07 09:12 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 11798 reads
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