Not long time ago, Japaneses tended to think Koreans as an inferior race. Now Sony is losing its markets to Samsung/LG. Not long time ago, Caucasians tended to think Asians as an inferior race. Now ...

Of the same level of seriousness, everyone could also ask a similar question "why is Bruce Schneiner called a "security expert"", much like Joel Spolsky a "software expert". Answers: - By the fluency of the two guys in making his "words" heard, sometimes even if those words are borrowed - By the help of the two guys' friends in the publishing world - By the stupidity of the crowd who are always willing to use some "experts' name" in order to make their words heard. They would repetitively say: "Joel says this, Bruce says that"

"encryption is nothing more than security through calculated obscurity. There are differing levels of obscurity and differing levels of difficulty to get useful information out of the obsfucation, but in the end, its all just security through obscurity" =====> Totally agree with this. When listening to many discussions in security, I often hear people criticizing "obscurity is not a good security". That's wrong. In fact, for me, good security is achieved by intractable obscurity. And it's funny for me to see that your post (by BitZtream) is marked as Troll, and scores 0. Funny moderation

Yes, when a home land is equipped with 1000 security experts and 1000 other mathematics experts, that's the ultimate security and we can all sleep well.

Is it a habit to name "vital" what we are lack of ? Oh, I see why many have voted for "brain". I did vote for "Genitalia", and I am a robot.