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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: nanog@merit.edu Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:27:45 -0500 Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu In message <20030129040240.GA4103@ussenterprise.ufp.org>, Leo Bicknell writes: > > > >FWIW: > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57550-2003Jan28.html > >"About 13,000 Bank of America cash machines had to be shut down. The >bank's ATMs sent encrypted information through the Internet, and when >the data slowed to a crawl, it stymied transactions, according to a >source, who said customer financial information was never in danger of >being stolen." > OK. I -- and, I suspect, most other folks on this list -- have been predicting for years that the Internet would become *the* data network, good for all taks. Bank of America believed us. They learned that maybe we were a bit overoptimistic in our time frame.... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
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