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Symantec CTO on Flash Attacks
scubacuda writes "Robert Clyde, CTO of Symantec, recently warned an audience at the United Nations that there's an increasing gap between the speed at which attacks are being launched and the industry's ability to respond. Most attacks on Web sites are classified as Class III threats because they tend to take several hours/days to execute. Recently, however, Class II "Warhol attacks"--such as the SQL Slammer worm that make themselves famous in 15 minutes--have emerged. Before long, Clyde predicts that groups of well-funded hackers working in concert will be able to launch Class I "Flash attacks." To combat this, Clyde says that patches would need to be developed more quickly and deployed continuously in an automated mode. Admins would need better ways of locking down networks so an attack on one router is automatically recognized by all routers on the network; throttling back the throughput of suspicious packets on the network in order to limit damage; automating tools for ensuring that all network clients are compliant with security policies; and creating Web services technologies that do not interfere with application performance."
Please, please post this kind of stuff in your journal or in a related thread... there's just one more annoying thing than reading the type of post you just made, and that's the kind of post I'm writing right now :S.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Before any mods take the parent seriously, please realize that this is a troll. He gives himself away in the second paragraph: (emphasis added by me)
However, Java has only been around since 1995, making it physically impossible for this guy to have over ten years of experience. I'm sure that's not even possible if he actually was one of the Java architects -- "over ten years" implies that the latest he could have first used Java was 1992, a good three years before Java was officially announced. While Java could have been around in some form or another internally at Sun, I sincerely doubt it would've been in any kind of useable form that early.
Others may say he gave himself away even earlier, saying that Perl is a retired language. I'm optimistic, and would like to think Perl is dead, so I won't hold that one against him :)
as an employee of Microsoft shouldn't you be pushing VB .Net??
In 1995 Sun announced that JAVA technology was real and would be incorporated into Netscape Navigator.
The set top box that JAVA came from was developed in 1992. According to the same article you reference, it took 18 months to develop pushing back the birthday into possible 1990. Differences of viewpoint (like these) are the same reason my Univeristy now has had 3 founding dates (each a few years further back in history).
The truth is that JAVA was never really "born", like all technologies it was the result of an idea which took time before it could be useable, and then took more time before it could be marketed.
Details aside, I too believe that the poster was most likely not one of the original 30 developers the article referrs to.
BASTARD! ;-)
Trust me, this is relevant. In The Matrix: Reloaded
* Agent Smith "infects" one of the Zion people and then answers one of those phone calls to go back into the real world.
* Those albino twins are not agents - they are programs that can become ghosts. They die when Morpheus uses a katana to cut open the tire of their SUV as they charge him. Morpheus shoots out the gas tank and the car blows up.
* Trinity does *not* die. Neo swoops in just in time to save her and heals her bullet wound.
* There is this guy called the "Architect" who explains to Neo that there have been 5 other "Anomalies" and they have all been dealt with, and that Neo is nothing special.
* The Nebuchadnezzar blows up near the end. Morpheus, Trinity, Blink, and Neo are all alive at the end.
Ok, you can't trust me. Sorry...