No it's not about Adnan Oktar, suprisingly. It's all about streaming soccer games and corporate stupidity. Some blogger blogs offer links to streaming media, so the corporation which has a monopoly on soccer game viewing access (yeah, bravo sierra is written all over it) gets pissed off and blocks whole nine yards of blogger.
Greed is evil, wherever whenever.
One thing you forget is he is Chuck Norris. He can't be defined in human terms. You are comparing Apples with Chuck Norris and his roundhouse judgement day kick.
Please, sir, let's be more careful in our examples...
I don't care about any moderation but every sentence I write is backed by objective facts. Go, and look forth my friend. 6 dumbest ideas idea is really dumb to start with. And author's solutions are mostly utopic. Please read the site with a criticized approach: "Author's definition of the problem", "Author's criticism" and lastly "Author's solution to the problem". And that is not my method fyi. It's Karl Popper's.
When you look form that perspective you can't get a single solid solution to any of the problems which the author mentioned. Thank you for your criticism by the way:)
<quote>The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security</quote> Why six? Why not five or traditional ten? Only "six" ideas in ComSec area drags us down, huh. Yeah mate keep on dreaming.
<quote>There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. </quote> Actually Marcus we are NOT "inundated with a steady stream of new stuff" and they do NOT "sound like they work just great". Actually,I pray you meant software and hardware protection methods when you mentioned the word "stuff", nothing is new on the western front. We are still using routers, switches, antivirii software and firewall boxes, and software , to protect our machines. Yes you can say "spyware protectors" are new but then they are not new practically they are specialized firewall-antivirus programs that checks only a limited area of the hard disk and network activity. And both are "old" technologies.
<quote>Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, or I'm asked to write a foreword for a new computer security book. </quote> Which ones? There are two books mentioned in your website and only one of them is about computer security, barely... trying to get people using linux is not a ComSec business. Your duty is to secure the network as it is. Whether your employer uses linux or windows is regardless on that matter. Trying to convert a 80 windows machine'd topology to linux is a sure shot to get fired as far as I can see...
<quote>And, thanks to the fact that it's a topic of public concern and a "safe issue" for politicians, we can expect a flood of computer security-related legislation from lawmakers.</quote> Yeah. We can expect it about p2p'ing and filesharing which is a grey area ethically. And local laws won't affect attackers from overseas. You found a cracker who has successfully cracked into your system from Lebanon. What will you do? Find and get him in USA to get into trial which will cost a LOT to your employee? Politicians are talking about the 'net since the Clinton-Gore election so what is new?
<quote> So: computer security is definitely still a "hot topic." But why are we spending all this time and money and still having problems?</quote> Yes it is a hot topic but, although it is a rhetorical question let me answer that we are spending all this time and money into ComSec because nothing is fool, or for that matter crack,proof.
<quote>Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security. What are they? They're the anti-good ideas.</quote> Including educating users... and non-patching... and tagging problems... Anti-good... yeah... *drooling*
<quote>They're the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. </quote> Erm, if one spends that amount of money into a firewall and somehow make it transparent to everyone... sorry "Hackers" I would bet my money that that person had a braindamage before installing that! When considering there are free alternatives on the market...
<quote>Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality."</quote> Then what are you doing here exactly? What are you trying to tell us? Don't educate users, don't patch the system? Don't know how an attack is made so we can't create a solution to that?? Don't know about you guv, but you are "trying to ignore the reality."!
<quote> Frequently those misguided attempts are sincere efforts by well-meaning people or companies who just don't fully understand the situation, </quote> like you
<propaganda mode>but other times it's just a bunch of savvy entrepreneurs with a well-marketed piece of junk they're selling to make a fast buck. In either case,
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No it's not about Adnan Oktar, suprisingly. It's all about streaming soccer games and corporate stupidity. Some blogger blogs offer links to streaming media, so the corporation which has a monopoly on soccer game viewing access (yeah, bravo sierra is written all over it) gets pissed off and blocks whole nine yards of blogger. Greed is evil, wherever whenever.
One thing you forget is he is Chuck Norris. He can't be defined in human terms. You are comparing Apples with Chuck Norris and his roundhouse judgement day kick. Please, sir, let's be more careful in our examples...
now where is my hover skateboard?
allright owned officially. :) Thank you for your post. It seems I was in err.
I don't care about any moderation but every sentence I write is backed by objective facts. Go, and look forth my friend. 6 dumbest ideas idea is really dumb to start with. And author's solutions are mostly utopic. Please read the site with a criticized approach: "Author's definition of the problem", "Author's criticism" and lastly "Author's solution to the problem". And that is not my method fyi. It's Karl Popper's.
:)
When you look form that perspective you can't get a single solid solution to any of the problems which the author mentioned. Thank you for your criticism by the way
Allrighty-o let's get into the business...
<quote>The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security</quote>
Why six? Why not five or traditional ten? Only "six" ideas in ComSec area drags us down, huh. Yeah mate keep on dreaming.
<quote>There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. </quote>
Actually Marcus we are NOT "inundated with a steady stream of new stuff" and they do NOT "sound like they work just great". Actually,I pray you meant software and hardware protection methods when you mentioned the word "stuff", nothing is new on the western front. We are still using routers, switches, antivirii software and firewall boxes, and software , to protect our machines. Yes you can say "spyware protectors" are new but then they are not new practically they are specialized firewall-antivirus programs that checks only a limited area of the hard disk and network activity. And both are "old" technologies.
<quote>Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, or I'm asked to write a foreword for a new computer security book. </quote>
Which ones? There are two books mentioned in your website and only one of them is about computer security, barely... trying to get people using linux is not a ComSec business. Your duty is to secure the network as it is. Whether your employer uses linux or windows is regardless on that matter. Trying to convert a 80 windows machine'd topology to linux is a sure shot to get fired as far as I can see...
<quote>And, thanks to the fact that it's a topic of public concern and a "safe issue" for politicians, we can expect a flood of computer security-related legislation from lawmakers.</quote>
Yeah. We can expect it about p2p'ing and filesharing which is a grey area ethically. And local laws won't affect attackers from overseas. You found a cracker who has successfully cracked into your system from Lebanon. What will you do? Find and get him in USA to get into trial which will cost a LOT to your employee? Politicians are talking about the 'net since the Clinton-Gore election so what is new?
<quote> So: computer security is definitely still a "hot topic." But why are we spending all this time and money and still having problems?</quote>
Yes it is a hot topic but, although it is a rhetorical question let me answer that we are spending all this time and money into ComSec because nothing is fool, or for that matter crack,proof.
<quote>Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security. What are they? They're the anti-good ideas.</quote>
Including educating users... and non-patching... and tagging problems... Anti-good... yeah... *drooling*
<quote>They're the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. </quote>
Erm, if one spends that amount of money into a firewall and somehow make it transparent to everyone... sorry "Hackers" I would bet my money that that person had a braindamage before installing that! When considering there are free alternatives on the market...
<quote>Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality."</quote>
Then what are you doing here exactly? What are you trying to tell us? Don't educate users, don't patch the system? Don't know how an attack is made so we can't create a solution to that?? Don't know about you guv, but you are "trying to ignore the reality."!
<quote> Frequently those misguided attempts are sincere efforts by well-meaning people or companies who just don't fully understand the situation, </quote>
like you
<propaganda mode>but other times it's just a bunch of savvy entrepreneurs with a well-marketed piece of junk they're selling to make a fast buck. In either case,