Re: [ISN] Complex Networks Too Easy to Hack

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Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 00:21:21 PST

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    Forwarded from: Emerson Tan <etat_private>
    
    There is something really basic here that lots of people forget, this
    whole article could be summed up by the old design maxim:
    
    Keep
    It
    Simple
    Stupid
    
    KISS
    
    It's so obvious...
    
    Emerson
    
    > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56766,00.html
    > 
    > By Michael Grebb 
    > Dec. 09, 2002
    > 
    > WASHINGTON -- Internet and telecommunications experts, here on
    > Friday to discuss homeland security, said increasingly complex
    > software operating systems and networks have made it easier than
    > ever to disrupt U.S. communications systems.
    > 
    > At the same time, hackers don't need to be highly skilled to wreak
    > havoc.
    > 
    > "Over time, we're getting very sophisticated attacks from morons,"  
    > said Bill Hancock, chair of the cybersecurity focus group of the
    > Network Reliability and Interoperability Council, which coordinates
    > voluntary "best practices" to maintain a streamlined communications
    > infrastructure.
    
     
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    are free." - Goethe
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