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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 11:12 am
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Originally Posted by goalie
i think they mean, "since we've failed so many open book (i.e. announced) tests and the numbers make us look bad", maybe we should discontinue the program
I definitely agree that their purpose here is in line with your thoughts.

We can't pass our own test, so it must not be a good test. Let's put a new one in place that we'll call "statistically" relevant and then pat ourselves on the back that we can pass it -- that its useless to verifying anything related to security will be irrelevant, of course
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