Wire Pirates
Beginning of paper
Someday the Internet may become an information superhighway, but right now it is
more like a 19th-century railroad that passes through the badlands of the Old
West. As waves of new settlers flock to cyberspace in search for free
information or commercial opportunity, they make easy marks for sharpe ....
Middle of paper
.... "No laws, rapid growth
and enterprise - it's shoot first or be killed."
To understand how the Internet, on which so many base their hopes for education,
profit and international competitiveness, came to this pass, it can be
instructive to look at the security record of other parts of the international
communications infrastructure.
The first, biggest error that designers seem to repeat is adoption of the
"security through obscurity" strategy. Time and again, attempts to keep a system
safe b ....
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