alt Hacker NewsThe way to think about security is as a system of layers, each of which filters out ever more sophisticated attackers.
We should care about all kinds of attackers, and not assume that the protections against the most sophisticated will obviate the protections against the least sophisticated.
The Swiss cheese model. Each single layer has holes, but when stacked the combined hole area is minimized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model