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IP: It is irresponsible to sell a product...
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:38:01 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: "Ed Gerck"<egerck () nma com> Sent: 7/31/02 2:06:27 PM To: "Dave Farber"<farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: It is irresponsible to sell a product... Dave: You may have seen this, but it's now becoming a clear call to improve authentication/encryption to stop crime and terrorism -- seemingly gaining over the other camp saying that increasing authentication/encryption might aid crime and terrorism. Cheers -- Ed Gerck ------------------- ... In an earlier speech at the same conference, President Bush's top cyber-security adviser, Richard Clarke, said the technology industry was acting irresponsibly by selling wireless tools such as computer network devices that remain remarkably easy for hackers to attack. The industry's most common data-scrambling technique designed to keep out eavesdroppers, called the wireless encryption protocol, can be broken usually in less than five minutes with software available on the Internet. "It is irresponsible to sell a product in a way that can be so easily misused by a customer in a way that jeopardizes their confidential and proprietary and sensitive information," Clarke said. ... In http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2002-07-31-defense-wireless_x.htm ------------------- For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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