[161448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Thu Mar 14 21:33:09 2013
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:05:31 +0800
From: Patrick <nanog@haller.ws>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2013-03-14 13:56, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/security-when-the-bad-guys-have-technology-too-how-do-we-survive/
>
> Three words: "desktop gene sequencing", "ebola", "script kiddies".
When the costs of offense fall, a pretty good response is to drive the
costs of defense through the floor. E.g. how do we drive the costs of
mitigating DDoSs down further?
A second best response would be ubiquitous surveillance....
