The Next 50 Years of Computer Security

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 13, 2005 @06:48AM from the i'll-be-grey-haired-and-senile dept.

wbglinks writes "An informative interview with Linux guru Alan Cox, with an emphasis on Linux and security. Alan will be the keynote speaker at EuroOSCON this October." From the article: "It is beginning to improve, but at the moment computer security is rather basic and mostly reactive. Systems fail absolutely rather than degrade. We are still in a world where an attack like the slammer worm combined with a PC BIOS eraser or disk locking tool could wipe out half the PCs exposed to the internet in a few hours. In a sense we are fortunate that most attackers want to control and use systems they attack rather than destroy them."

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Re:looking back on the last 50 years, by mov_eax_eax · 2005-09-13 07:02 · Score: 3, Informative

RTFA. even if the title of the interview says "The Next 50 Years of Computer Security" the content is not related with the next 50 years, there are just some superficial random thoughts of alan cox about CURRENT security.