[52309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Tue Sep 24 19:11:47 2002
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:58:22 +0200
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209230000440.16417-100000@arch.exigengroup.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> PPS. I'm really really amazed at how people can consider any opaque
> system
> truthworthy. Most computer users naively trust their secrets to
> effectively every one of thousands of Microsoft engineers who can
> easily plant trapdoors. The same goes for trusting Intel. How
> hard
> it is for a CPU designer to plant an obscure bug causing switch to
> a
> privileged mode? It is hard _not_ to create trapdoors like that by
> mistake, even in much simpler designs (check the 30-year old
> report on
> Multics security).
>
I think it's even worse. Having traveled quite a lot in my previous
job, I on one airplane realized that the person sitting next to me was
working on the sales budget for one of our largest competitors.....
I once (also on an airplane actually) learned that most investment
banks have a ban on their employees to use their laptops or in other
ways work on airplanes. Make sense to me. But I keep breaching it.
- kurtis - / (...as I am sitting in the air somewhere over northern
Germany)
