Definitions of "Security"?

[Arnold G. Reinhold]

At 4:01 PM +0200 4/14/04, hadmut at danisch.de wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for interesting and unusal defitions of the
>term "Security" (or "secure").
>
>I'm fully aware that it is difficult or impossible to give
>a precise, compact, and universal definitions, and some
>book authors explicitely say so. However, there are definitions
>(or attempts to give those), and I'd be interested to compare
>them. If you know of any definition that might be interesting
>for any reason, please send me a link or citation. thanx
>

Here is one of mine that is biology inspired:

"A division of a set of actors into 'self' and 'other' with a 
mechanism that allows self actors  to perform certain activities that 
are effectively denied to others."

Arnold Reinhold

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