The Authenticity Alliance’s Post

For hundreds of years, physicians practiced bloodletting, the draining of blood from a patient in order to rid the person of an overabundance of a certain type of “humor,” despite plentiful evidence that bloodletting was useless at best, and surely despite some skeptical looks from patients and their families. No one likes to confront evidence that something in which they’ve invested their professional lives is useless. I am not a practitioner of information security because I have seen that the practice of information security does not produce information security any more than the practice of bloodletting produces health. 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆, on the other hand, is a goal worthy of the efforts needed to achieve it. And in producing authenticity we get an important byproduct: information security. — Wes Kussmaul, Quiet Enjoyment, Second Edition, page 23.

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