RE: This computer security column is banned in Canada

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Forwarded from: Tony | AVIEN / EWS <tony () avien org>
Cc: steve () entrenchtech com, Rob () vmyths com

There are articles and papers everywhere talking about why Security
Through Obscurity doesn't work as an effective security measure. It is
a bureaucratic dream that if only you pretend the problem doesn't
exist or hide its existence from the general population that the
problem will go away.

Do the students have to develop new viruses to learn about viruses-
no. But, to quote Albert Einstein "You cannot solve the problem with
the same kind of thinking that has created the problem."

I think that to develop the next generation of virus defense we need
people to get into the minds of the virus writers and think like them-
use their tools, work the way they work. Maybe by doing so they can
find the chinks in the armor before the bad guys and develop proactive
tools instead of the reactionary virus defense we currently have.

Read the article I wrote on this controversial topic:
http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/generalsecurity/a/aa060303.htm


Tony Bradley, CISSP, MCSE2k, MCSA, MCP, A+
About.com Guide for Internet / Network Security
http://netsecurity.about.com 

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