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Infosec Needs to Avoid Repeating Past Patterns of Error
Monday, 16 May 2005, 18:01 GMT

If you look at the shape of a mountain range, it's often difficult to tell whether the image spans just a few hundred feet or hundreds of miles. Any section of the shape has the same sorts of wiggles as the larger context from which it came.

This is called "self-similarity," and I felt as if I were experiencing the same phenomenon while preparing my charts for a recent talk on information security.

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