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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. V-I-R-U-S-E-S by lorcha · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seriously. For more information than you ever wanted to know about why "virii" is incorrect, please see here.

    Thank you.

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  2. Re:Spelling! by mattjb0010 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You forgot about claiming a Microsoft tactic that's been floating around the past few weeks as "interesting":

    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.

    Not to mention the crackers/hackers thing which has already been mentioned :)

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

    No, since you want thing to work for Gramma, you write up a script for her and you call it something like Dear_Grammas_Script And then you tell Granny that all she has to do is type that in if she ever reboots. p. And if you REALLY loved Grandma you'd just make that a startup script which takes approximately 5 seconds longer. Or just get her to run Red Hat or Mandrake which let you easilly configure your firewall. I'd say it's even easier than on a Mac since on the Mac you'd need to know where to go find the firewall settings. It's not very intuitive. Pretty ironic. Under Mandrake you just click on the security tool.

  4. Re:Don't no the right word to use? Make one up! by liquidsin · · Score: 3, Informative

    maybe incentivizing was what the submitter was after. Oh, and by the way, don't rag on someone for not "no"ing the right word to use if you can't do it yourself ;)

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