Re: New Internet for Security

[Kevin Shalla <kshalla () UIC EDU>]

A new internet won't help.  When any user installs any software or
operating system that he hasn't personally written, he's taking a
risk.  Even if the internet were perfectly secure, people want new
features and new applications all the time, and so will install new
software, and that software will have security errors, or worse - be
designed to steal information or machine resources.  Getting users to
install this software is easier to accomplish and harder to eliminate
than an insecure internet.

At 08:46 AM 2/15/2009, Theresa Rowe wrote:
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html?th&emc=th>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html?th&emc=th
> Do We Need a New Internet?
>
> "Bad enough that there is a growing belief among engineers and
> security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so
> maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over."
>
> Do you think it is really that bad?
>
> --
> Theresa Rowe
> Chief Information Officer
> Oakland University