Re: New Internet for Security

[Keith Schoenefeld <schoenk () ILLINOIS EDU>]

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I would argue in many cases the security of the Internet is specifically
compromised by people who install software that they _have_ personally
written.

- -- KS

Kevin Shalla wrote:
> 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

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Keith Schoenefeld
Network Security Officer
Office of Privacy and Information Assurance
University of Illinois
(217) 333-4332
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