Re: [ga] Net security's a losing battle

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

HI Patrick,

Your comments are interesting, but what caught my attention was Scheier's
comments about having enough data, but not knowing how to use it, and his
viewpoint that companies are reluctant to report cyberattacks because of the
stigma, making things worse. These appear later in the article.

I don't mean to split hairs, but on a point of order, when replying to my
post, you deleted all reference to the publisher of the original article,
ZDNet (UK) and the article's writer, Wendy McAuliffe. The casual observer
might think I had written the quote, or that it expressed my views, whereas
my intention was only to post a reference to an independant source of
information without personal comment.

FYI, the URL of the full article is at
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2814883,00.html.

Regards,
Joanna 


on 9/28/01 10:59 AM, Patrick Greenwell at patrick@stealthgeeks.net wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Joanna Lane wrote:
> 
>> "Traditionally, Internet security has been thought of as a technology issue,
>> based on the notion that you can build products to plug the holes," said
>> Schneier. "But we are losing the battle with computer security. We are
>> building new products, but every year gets actively worse."
> 
> F.U.D. The problem is *with* the new products, because organizations are
> so rushed to shove product out the door security if it is considered at
> all is largely an afterthought. This does not render the problem
> unsolvable. Do away with laughable EULA's(would you buy a car that said
> "may blow up or not run at all but we're not responsible?") and start
> holding companies accountable for the crap they are foisting upon the public
> and I guarantee you'd see a world of change.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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