John Kelsey and I wrote a short paper for the Rossfest Festschrift: “Rational
Astrologies and Security“:
> There is another non-security way that designers can spend their security
> budget: on making their own lives easier. Many of these fall into the category
> of what has been called rational astrology. First identified by Randy Steve
> Waldman [Wal12], the term refers to something people treat as though it works,
> generally for social or institutional reasons, even when there’s little
> evidence that it works—and sometimes despite substantial evidence that it
> does not...