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Open Source Security Secrets
When asked the way out of the Labrynth, the King of the Goblins made it seem very difficult indeed. No instruction book or picture diagrams were laid out in front of the hapless victim of his eternal puzzles.
The King of the Software Empire has similarly hidden the pathways and passageways around his mortal tomb. If you can be so boring as to wade your way through mountains of documents which are about intangible whatsits with EXTREMELYANNOYINGLYLONGNAMES ... then you will inherit the world. An extremely dull world.
Or in the land of the living, the Open Source world, we can see what we are creating as the impetus is not to squelch the opposition or leave some hapless mortal to wander forever for our wry amusement.
In the land of the living, we call a "link" a "link" and a "function" a "function". We don't go calling it a _DF_FUNCTION( "RME882772736362515152363", "XFXXFFF73482") or anything that is that hard to remember or recognise.
And armed with those tools which the mind can grasp, we can create complex and sophisticated little functions with their own simple names, and write things that encrypt your data and protect it from thieves forever.
The Goblin King is still deciding what to do with you as you scramble through his endless maze and distracts you with wallets in which money disappears, and machines which can be infected with so many viruses, that is it almost a sport to watch then battle for control...