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IP: "SECURITY IS NOT PROTECTION, IT'S DELAY" PopSci
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:47:14 -0400
From: "Robert Raisch, Internet Consultant" <raisch () internautics com> Organization: Internautics Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:41:32 -0400 (Perhaps "Popular Science Fiction" would be a better title? </rr>) "SECURITY IS NOT PROTECTION, IT'S DELAY" The U.S. military is taking the threat of information warfare seriously, with a report from the Defense Science Board predicting that by the year 2005, attacks on U.S. information systems by terrorists and foreign espionage agents will be widespread. Even scarier is the threat from home-grown crackers, who are responsible for most of the assaults on U.S. information and communications systems. An innovative software program developed at the Defense Information Systems Agency's Information Warfare Division can tag suspected interlopers with an unerasable identification number, and then follow them back to their home or office. Once there, the number can be used to target the intruder with an offensive volley (a virus, for instance) that scrambles the attacker's system. "You have to view security as buying you time," says the chief of the Information Warfare Division. "It's not protection, it's delay." (Popular Science Jul 97) -- Rob Raisch, Online Strategist <http://www.internautics.com/raisch> "O brave new world, That has such people in't!"
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