They can't outsource classified work to other countries. You really don't have to worry about job security in this country if you have a DoD security clearence. If you live in the Washington D.C. area and have an active security clearence, there are currently 1000s of open software engineering jobs. While this could change if the political climate changes, for now you are good.
one huge difference between the Internet and a big intranet is that there is no one administrative domain controlling the Internet. You have dozens of backbone providers, and thousands of smaller ISPs, all in a competitive environment. This competitive environment means that ISPs and backbone providers are not all sharing useful info. It would be a hell of a lot easier stopping DDOS attacks if one network admin could control all the routers in the network. this is true for an intranet, but sure isn't true for the Internet.
think of what would have happened had they given a "real" IP address, i.e. a non-private network IP. whoever had that unfortunate IP address would be blasted of the Internet by all the smart people trying to nmap it.
has there been a single case of a hacker comprising a BGP-speaking router on the Internet? I am not sure. I am sure though that there have been MANY cases of misconfigured routers. I believe it is much more common for backbone providers (Sprint, AT&T, etc) to filter routes from customers (small ISPs), than from other backbone providers. Therefore even with filtering, misconfiguration of backbone routers is still a huge issue. While it is a story that probably won't make it on ZDNet, I think the real need is to develop tools for network operators that will help insure that they haven't made a mistake when reconfiguring their routers.
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They can't outsource classified work to other countries. You really don't have to worry about job security in this country if you have a DoD security clearence. If you live in the Washington D.C. area and have an active security clearence, there are currently 1000s of open software engineering jobs. While this could change if the political climate changes, for now you are good.
one huge difference between the Internet and a big intranet is that there is no one administrative domain controlling the Internet. You have dozens of backbone providers, and thousands of smaller ISPs, all in a competitive environment. This competitive environment means that ISPs and backbone providers are not all sharing useful info. It would be a hell of a lot easier stopping DDOS attacks if one network admin could control all the routers in the network. this is true for an intranet, but sure isn't true for the Internet.
think of what would have happened had they given a "real" IP address, i.e. a non-private network IP. whoever had that unfortunate IP address would be blasted of the Internet by all the smart people trying to nmap it.
has there been a single case of a hacker comprising a BGP-speaking router on the Internet? I am not sure. I am sure though that there have been MANY cases of misconfigured routers. I believe it is much more common for backbone providers (Sprint, AT&T, etc) to filter routes from customers (small ISPs), than from other backbone providers. Therefore even with filtering, misconfiguration of backbone routers is still a huge issue. While it is a story that probably won't make it on ZDNet, I think the real need is to develop tools for network operators that will help insure that they haven't made a mistake when reconfiguring their routers.