Luck as a topological property
Dan Kaminski on Dan J. Bernstein being right on Source Port Randomization, versus Paul Vixie, in the recent DNS protocol bug:
There is a fantastic quote that guides a lot of the work I do: Luck is the residue of design.
Excellent quote, I didn’t know it. One of those nuggets of wisdom I try to collect here. I see the quote as luck being a nice property of the “shape” of a well designed solution space.
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