Re: Origins of Security Problems

[Crispin Cowan <crispin () immunix com>]

Mark Rockman wrote:


I had no idea I was promulgating a syllogism.  In fact, I did not intend to.
My point was that the world changed and the software didn't nor did people
change their behaviors to compensate.


The threat-level changed when people hooked computers running critical
applications to the internet without taking additional precautions. The
insecurity was there in the first place, before the Internet was injected.

Crispin

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