The Internet: Made For Hacking

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Forbes.com.

[snip]

Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, says the Internet is
insecure. And he should know — he helped build the thing.

Cerf, who helped design the first protocols that allowed information to be
sent across computer networks in the late 1970s, expressed regret in a
speech Tuesday that he hadn't designed the Internet to be a safer, more
regulated system.

"We didn't pay a great deal of attention to the security side of the
Internet when it was first being designed because we didn't really know if
it would work at all," Cerf said in the keynote address at Georgia Tech's
annual security summit. "Much of the problems that you all face every day
might be caused by that."

[snip]

More:
http://www.forbes.com/security/2007/10/03/cerf-internet-hacking-tech-securi
ty-cx_ag_1003techcerf.html

- - ferg

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