Vint Cerf on Net Security, Hacking, and Acting

ancientribe writes "Father of the Internet Vint Cerf talks candidly in an article on Dark Reading about his being a Googler, and the biggest problems with Internet security and what he sees as the most promising solutions. He says that he's only done a little casual hacking, and that the term 'hacker' no longer comes with the honor it once did. Cerf also reveals in this personal look at the Internet icon that his real dream was to be an actor."

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Speak for yourself, troll.

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"M$" was not mentioned by name - that's probably because Cerf knows the problem can hardly be blamed on Microsoft

I'll let Cerf tell me that, not some troll like you. The little slide show you pointed to mentioned XP but no other OS. What exactly were you trying to tell me? Have you found a successful gnu/linux hosted botnet outside of a lab? Take your chicken little nonsense back to Redmond and help those idiots hold up the sky, because it has fallen on them.

Yoda sez: Anger leads to bullshit

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Don't get your panties in a bunch. Why do you act like every single response to your posts is a personal insult? What, you think these 10,000 boxes were running "Windoze"? That's kind of a catch 22 for people like you, isn't it? The best IRC software runs on BSD and Linux, or at least I've never seen an IRC server that works well on Windows. Ergo, what were those machines running? BeOS? AmigaOS? Heh.

Don't let your insane hatred of Microsoft blind you to reality. Botnets are not an OS problem, they're a process, people and security problem. You can't change that (or anything else) by claiming everything you think is wrong is Microsoft's fault, or whining that anyone who points out otherwise is employed by them. Your little "if you don't hate everything I do and think the same way I do then you must work for M$" mantra gets more annoying every day.