The Great Debate About Security Cameras
Security’s a business that’s highly philosophical and political, as odd as that all might seem. You might look at a set of security cameras and think, “Well, this is pretty straightforward.” But there are two schools. Sort of like how there are white hat computer hackers and black hat computer hackers. In that same vein, you’ve got a school of thought in security that says that openness is more safe, to have an open society with less secrets, is a better and safer situation than one that’s closed and locked down. And then there’s the other side of that, the flip side to that, and that’s being closed; and that pretty much goes like: the more control and closed a system is, the safer it is. Is that true though? We’re seeing this debate unfold in a variety of ways, and in many ways there’s higher meaning to this debate, and the outcome will lead to something fundamentally drastic.
