Information Security On An Olympic Scale

jeffy124 writes: "Wired is running a story about the man in charge of securing the computer systems at the Salt Lake City Olympic Games next February. Matt McClung discusses how he's withstanding an 'overhype' in the media on the possibility getting his systems cracked and what he's doing to prevent it in the first place. With 4500 PCs and 550 servers, that shall be a daunting task, especially given the reliability problems at the '96 Atlanta games."

Comments

This is *not* the place! (rant!) ;-)

[Deagol]

I work at the University of Utah. I'm no Mormon, but I wish these Olympic assholes would just get the fuck out of my life.

We, the taxpayers, have had to fund more shit -- all in the name of the Olympics and World Peace -- only to get little in return. Yeah, we have wider highways, but they're already as congested as they were before I-15 construction began. We have a light rail in town, but they had to up sales tax for that (and I'm sure it won't go back down when its done). The U. just lost a few thousand parking lots to accomodate the games -- and I'm sure all of you University admins know how parking on a large campus already sucks.

I'm so sick of these fucking Olympic organizations. The IOC and the SLOC (with phony Mr Romney at the helm), are are a bunch of corporate whores who rape the local communities for getting a few bucks in return.

This whole thing really pisses me off, if you haven't figured that out by now. If the network is hacked, I'll be laughing my ass off. I'm gonna fly my Corporate Flag on my car when I crawl through downtown traffic when I'm on my way to/from work during the "games". Not that it'll change anything, but at least I'll feel better.

These scores just in...

[ellem]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?&site=www.salt lake2002.com

Bronze == Solaris with 144.81 days of up time
Silver == Linux with 130.78 days of uptime
and the winner and still champion of the world in the Network Server Crash
Gold == Win2k with and astounding 28.8 days of uptime!

Way to go Microsoft you've proven again that innovation and crashes go hand in hand.

Re:Security already not so great

[Ryu2]

What are you talking about? It's certainly reassuring to me that they're using a real OS backed by a large stable vendor, not some hobbyist crap like Linux.