Re: Banc of America Article

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <20030129040240.GA4103 () ussenterprise ufp org>, Leo Bicknell writes:
> FWIW:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57550-2003Jan28.html
>
> "About 13,000 Bank of America cash machines had to be shut down. The
> bank's ATMs sent encrypted information through the Internet, and when
> the data slowed to a crawl, it stymied transactions, according to a
> source, who said customer financial information was never in danger of
> being stolen."

OK.  I -- and, I suspect, most other folks on this list -- have been 
predicting for years that the Internet would become *the* data network, 
good for all taks.  Bank of America believed us.  They learned that 
maybe we were a bit overoptimistic in our time frame....


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
                http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)