Re: InfoSec: Food for Thought

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:53:05 EST, Bruce Potter said:

> This rabbit hole goes very deep indeed.  Here's a study from 1972 that  
> is still relevant today (unfortunately)
>
> http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/history/papers/ande72a.pdf
> http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/history/papers/ande72.pdf

Karger&Schell (of the Multics pentest paper fame) did a 30-years-later
paper, in which they basically concluded that we've regressed in
the 3 decades since...

http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf

(And if anybody here *still* hasn't read the original, it's at
http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics-orig.pdf)

Trivia: That's the "unnamed Air Force document" Thompson referenced in
"On Trusting Trust"...

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