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Re: Question on the state of the security industry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Fri Jul 16 12:34:00 2004
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:18:21 -0600
To: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
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A couple recent news stories
1)
Intuit warns of credit card risk
http://news.com.com/Intuit+warns+of+credit+card+risk/2100-1029_3-5269821.html
2)
Cyberattacks are soaring, countermeasures are sucking up tons of cash, and
hardware and software vendors for the most part are sitting it out, *Bob
Evans* says. But big customers are starting to say enough is enough, so the
business-technology world is about to get whirled.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=WK0LPHXYB4YSUQSNDBGCKHY?articleID=22104612
...................
i've been saying for some time that after market security is broken by
design ... it is somewhat like after market seat belts of the 60s. for
security to work, it has to be designed & built in from the start .... some
relatively recent comments about after market security:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#39 Oh, here's an interesting paper
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#27 Secure you PC or get kicked off
the net?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#14 Poor people's OS?
--
Anne & Lynn Wheeler http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
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