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Spaf's Crystal Ball: Network Security Predictions
remora writes "Eugene Spafford[?] (of CERIAS, and co-author of "Practical Unix Security") has written an article for Information Security Magazine with eight of his predictions for the coming years in network security. He touches on subjects such as "Spam will grow as a problem" (obviously), to the "Greater emphasis on international cooperation and communication. Some of the article is fairly predictable, but it is still interesting to hear from one of the more experienced security people out there."
I always thought it was the other way around!
As in we should exercise more caution about closed source systems no matter which one we are advocating !!
Oh well!
Actually I kind of agree with him. I will tell ya why. Personally, when I am at home it's my time. I usually love unplugging for at least an hour if not the whole evening. Yeah I love technology and all, but why I want to is invariably, I always start to ask the question is it worth it when I start working on something. If it isn't, I push away and relaxe by watching a DVD. Now if I didn't have the hassle of normal day to day computer using, I would use it more. Case in point, my PDA is what I take with me on trips rather then a laptop. It works EVERYTIME and powers on in less then a second. People hate having to wait for the boot sequence and all of that. People want to work. Remember when the first home computers came out and they were real popular? Remember why? The reason it was was that they were instant on. No waiting for a disk to be read or any of that. On my Atari 800XL, when I wanted to write a paper for school, I would insert the cartridge for the word processor and turn it on. THAT'S IT! The software was available soon after (less then a second) I flipped the power switch. The only downside of the older ones was that saves took forever because you usually could not afford the disk drive so you were stuck with tape. My Atari 800XL cost LESS then the disk drive! We used a tape drive. There's no reason we can't have these type of computers and no reason to kill off the PC because of them. The PC could turn out to be a household server more then anything with everyone having a laptop style or pad style computer that could be used anywhere. When you were at home, the pad could periodically dump it's contents to the PC and when you leave you can make sure you have the files you really need with you. Appliance computers will happen eventually. Even us geeks will use them.
Gorkman