Thanks Captain Picard

I love this graphic. It says so much. I actually have it pinned up at my desk at work so it's easy for me to roll my eyes over and ask him the same question - usually several times a night.

Tonight I will share this graphic with you in response to this "Severe" OpenSSL vulnerability recently released. And this quote:

The university scientists found that they could deduce tiny pieces of a private key by injecting slight fluctuations in a device's power supply as it was processing encrypted messages. In a little more than 100 hours, they fed the device enough "transient faults" that they were able to assemble the entirety of its 1024-bit key.

http://www.theregister.co.uk.nyud.net/2010/03/04/severe_openssl_vulnerability/