Schneier on Obama Discussing Security Trade-Offs

Schneier has purged all purely political comments, restricting the thread to discussion of security trade-offs only.

I wish that more people in charge of blogs and discussion sites maintained a focus like that: While Slashdot's anything-goes discussions have their place, so do focused conversations in which irrelevancies aren't allowed to intrude.

The ability to understand and explain the 'big picture' of security that Obama displays in this comment is certainly confidence inspiring. To me, at least!

Unfortunately, Schneier is not a security expert, just a layman. He's a mathematician who somehow believes he's qualified to talk about a wide range of security topics. He's not.