“Unafraid A Thousand See, Afraid One Knows”
Sometime last week, I read this interesting biographies about famous hackers, which remind me of a Chinese idiom that my teacher taught me many years ago.
The idiom reads like this, “Bu Pa Qian Ren Kan, Zhi Pa Yi Ren Zhi”, which means “Unafraid A Thousand See, Afraid One Knows”.
The idiom is true not only in everyday life, but also in the computer world, in that when somebody knows a weakness on a program or system, you should be afraid because he/she can manipulate it in ways that are sometimes unimaginable.
I guess the moral of the story is, “security is not something to be overlooked or taken for granted.”