CIO Magazine roundtable: let's kill the Internet to save it!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ibd com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:54:44 -0800
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: CIO Magazine roundtable: let's kill the Internet to save it!

CIO Magazine roundtable: let's kill the Internet to save it!

posted by Cory Doctorow at 07:07:35 AM Thursday, March 17, 2005
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/17/cio_magazine_roundta.html

Clay Shirky writes, "CIOs band together and agree: it's time to take
your freedom away, in order to improve security. CIO magazine hosts a
wonderful discussion among sercurity officers at BigCos on how to make
security on the internet better, including the appointment of a
Federal IT Czar, and taking intelligence away from the edges and
putting it back in the center, where it can be managed for a
fee. (This suggestion from ATT.) And then there's this two-fisted
brainstorm: 'Let's make all end user devices nonprogrammable. No one
can connect to the Internet on a machine that creates code. If you
want a computer to do programming, you would have to be licensed. We
could license software companies to purchase programmable machines,
which would be completely traceable along with the code created on
them.' Web 2.0 is AOL 1.0 indeed..."

     Treat End Users Like the Dummies They Are

     Amoroso of AT&T believes that the fundamental security problem is
     that during the past decade, and quite unintentionally, the
     network's intelligence has migrated to the edge. "We're all sys
     admins," he says. And millions of end users holding sway over
     their security settings translates to millions of potential dumb
     configurations, boneheaded double-clicks and unintentional
     security lapses. Accidents happen, and bad guys take advantage of
     the fact that not all end users are created equal in terms of
     security.

     After all, Amoroso argues, do you control power distribution
     around your house, or do you just plug stuff in?

     He thinks AT&T can make a ton of money off this idea: Return
     control to the network providers (like his own company's phone
     system in the 1970s, he says, a time when Ma Bell controlled
     everything, including the technology's interface), and let the
     providers charge you for doing all of the filtering, traffic
     analytics, worm detection and incident response. "That's my
     solution," Amoroso says. "Create a service. Make money."

Link  (Thanks, Clay!) http://www.cio.com/archive/031505/security.html



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