Reflections on Brilliant Digital: Single Points of 0wnership

nweaver writes "Some reflection on Brilliant Digital's plans shows that they have inadvertently created a Single Point of 0wnership: a single machine or small group of machines which, if succesfully attacked, can be used to gain effective control of the Internet. The implications are rather scary: Even if you never touched KaZaA, your systems may be affected if someone manages to attack Brilliant Digital's update service. Who needs a Warhol Worm?".Updated by HeUnique: use these instructions to remove the Brilliant part.

Comments

The post is a rant!

[JDizzy]

I took the time to read the linkage, but was very disapointed at the substance..... This was nothing more than a rant from a disgruntled college student. Obviously he is more emotional, and passionat than he was logical, and compelling. The arguments he raises have little weight, or simply state the obvious. There was zero information about anything pratical, just conjecture, theory, and a bunch of what-if's. The person who wrote the rant is nothing more than a Teachers aid, at Berkley... he is not anybody worth listening to, at least not until he gets his degree, and a few more years of wisdom.

I think everyone can aggree that Brilliant's sleeper software is dubious at best, a straight up violation of law at the worst. However, this persons rant doesn't help anybody.