IP: "SECURITY IS NOT PROTECTION, IT'S DELAY" PopSci

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: "Robert Raisch, Internet Consultant" <raisch () internautics com>
Organization: Internautics
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:41:32 -0400




(Perhaps "Popular Science Fiction" would be a better title?  </rr>)


"SECURITY IS NOT PROTECTION, IT'S DELAY" The U.S. military is taking 
the threat of information warfare seriously, with a report from the 
Defense Science Board predicting that by the year 2005, attacks on 
U.S. information systems by terrorists and foreign espionage agents 
will be widespread.  Even scarier is the threat from home-grown 
crackers, who are responsible for most of the assaults on U.S. 
information and communications systems.  An innovative software 
program developed at the Defense Information Systems Agency's 
Information Warfare Division can tag suspected interlopers with an 
unerasable identification number, and then follow them  back to their 
home or office.  Once there, the number can be used to target the 
intruder with an offensive volley (a virus, for instance) that 
scrambles the attacker's system.  "You have to view security as 
buying you time," says the chief of the Information Warfare Division. 
 "It's not protection, it's delay." (Popular Science Jul 97)

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Rob Raisch, Online Strategist
<http://www.internautics.com/raisch>
"O brave new world, That has such people in't!"