Internet Security: Where Do We Stand

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 1, 2003 @12:26AM 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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Slashdot Idiocy: Where do we stand by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-01 00:28 · Score: -1, Troll

looks like we are moving backwards
I support the hackers by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-01 00:48 · Score: -1, Troll

Hacking into people's computers is fun. It's not like stealing a car, burning a house or murdering somebody. It's just bytes. If you have important data, back it up. If you have secrets, use linux, work off-line or use another PC not connected to the internet, to do your work. 90% of PCs running windows are one way or another, trojaned, spywared, hax0red, anyway.