Recently I participated in a small meeting involving a cross-section of people interested in digital security and public policy. During the meeting one of the participants voiced the often-repeated but, in my opinion, misguided notion that the primary problem with digital security is \"design.\" In other words, \"the Internet was not designed to be secure.\" If the Internet was not designed to be secure, all applications are \"built on a foundation of sand\" and therefore can never be \"secure.\"This is a typical \"engineering\" mentality applied to digital security. I do not agree with it. You might think it\'s because I\'m not a \"professional engineer.\" Strangely enough, at USAFA I took classes in chemistry, physics (two courses), math (calc III and diff eq), thermodynamics, and five pure engineering courses (electrical, mechanical, civil, aeronautical, astronautical) plus the dreaded Academy \"capstone\" course -- all of which would qualify me for a minor in engineering at a \"normal\" colle
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