UN Advised on Wireless Insecurity

otisaardvark writes "There's an article on the BBC about how the UN is being briefed on the problems of wireless networks. Predictable conclusions - security is mainly compromised through human, not technological factors."

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[Guppy06]

"There's an article on the BBC about how the UN is being briefed on the problems of wireless networks. Predictable conclusions - security is mainly compromised through human, not technological factors."

So... what does the UN not want the general public to know? Heck, should the UN even be making calls like that?

Re:Most in secure os? Yep its linuX!

[rolfwind]

I know this is a troll, but from your article:

Furthermore, the Aberdeen Group reports that more than 50 percent of all security advisories that CERT issued in the first 10 months of 2002 were for Linux and other open-source software solutions. The report muddles the argument that proprietary software such as Windows is inherently less secure than open solutions. And here's another blow to the status quo: Proprietary UNIX solutions were responsible for just as many security advisories as Linux in the same time period. Could Windows be the most secure mainstream OS available today? Let me see, Linux in the first ten months was responsible for 50% of security advisories. Prop. Unixes were responsibile for just as many, which equals the other 50%. So alltogether Linux/Unix were responsible for all the advisories, M$ DOG/3.1/95/98/2000/XP none, Mac none, all the other non-unix OS none. Yeah, and Saddam really got 100% of the votes in Iraq.