A very provocative article ran in the January 23^rd New York Times entitled  “Cameras May Open Up the Board Room to Hackers.”  The subtitle of this article is “Flaws in videoconferencing systems make boardrooms vulnerable.”  

As I read this article it brought to mind one of my favorite quotes from HL Menken (and I’m paraphrasing here) that ‘All complex problems have answers that are clear, simple and wrong.’

Would you call a house design “flawed” because leaving the door unlocked is a security risk?  Would you call PC designs “flawed” if the users don’t activate a log-in password?  Would you call your credit card “flawed” if you leave it lying around so people can see the numbers?

At some point in every life endeavor the responsibility to ensure that we are secure belongs to each of us as individuals.  There is no inherent flaw in a technically solid system that has been stupidly implemented.