If I knew then what I know now -- Zero Day Vulnerabilities and why we should confine the unknown

When Donald Rumsfeld gave a briefing about the Iraq WMD program in 2012 (Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction were a major justification for the second invasion) he said "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know." At the time, many mocked this word-salad as the Secretary of State for Defense delivering an over-complicated and evasive way of admitting that they had no… [Continue Reading]