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Internet Security: Where Do We Stand

Posted by Hemos on from the reviewing-the-situation dept.

buxton writes "The Economist is running an interesting story which overviews the current global situation on internet security in hackers, terrorism, worms & virii, Microsoft's 'monoculture', and a bunch of other interesting points. Some nice suggestions made by big names in the software industry have been included, such as creating more easily traceable methods of people (i.e. trying to eliminate online anonimity) as a method of preventing hackers. One suggestion which I thought was partictularly interesting involved a bounty system whereby a price would be put on 'hacker's heads', incentivating other hackers to go after them and bring them forward."

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  1. Re:Where do we stand : Abridged version by mattjb0010 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But this is slashd... oh, you meant metaphorically.

  2. Spelling! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    good effort on spelling errors! anonimity! incentivating! partictularly!

    thankfully you were saved by not using the clumsy "viruses"

  3. Re:How about we encourage people to use IPTables? by pvt_medic · · Score: 2, Funny

    yes because people are just so intelegent and capable of handling their computers on their own.

    I think this sums it up.

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  4. New Haxxor Challenge by maroberts · · Score: 4, Funny

    See if you can get the most bounty on your head! Open to script kiddies everywhere!

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  5. It's easy! by aug24 · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. viri
    2. virii
    3. viriii
    4. viriv
    5. virv
    6. virvi
    7. virvii
    8. virviii
    9. virix
    10. virx
    (nicked)

    Justin.

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  6. Re:How about we encourage people to use IPTables? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that you Gramma?

  7. Re:V-I-R-U-S-E-S by Tony-A · · Score: 3, Funny

    No. The plural of virus is Microsoft.

  8. Re:How about we encourage people to use IPTables? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Tell grandma to use pencil and paper a stamp and an envelope or maybe the phone. Hopefully she knows how to operate both of those systems.

  9. Everyone stop trolling about it! by Cyno01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Virii is a perfectly cromulent word.

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  10. Don't no the write word too use? by dr.newton · · Score: 2, Funny

    use a homonym!

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