02-05-2004, 11:41 PM
He was most likely very intelligent, but had zero common sense. Like me and my hacker friends when we were 16.
The truth about network security is that it mostly keeps the honest and ignorant out. A dedicated programmer who is very familiar with networks can pretty easily break into most commercial networks. It really takes good encryption and a dedication to keep your network clear of everything else to make things safer, and then in order to communicate at all you need to have a way to undo anything you encrypt. Even many network security people have no idea how vulnerable they really are. I would tell you of some stories about my work with various agencies if I could. When I was still consulting a few years ago, one of the services my team offered were security assessments.
Some stuff you just don't want to know. You'll sleep better not knowing.
The truth about network security is that it mostly keeps the honest and ignorant out. A dedicated programmer who is very familiar with networks can pretty easily break into most commercial networks. It really takes good encryption and a dedication to keep your network clear of everything else to make things safer, and then in order to communicate at all you need to have a way to undo anything you encrypt. Even many network security people have no idea how vulnerable they really are. I would tell you of some stories about my work with various agencies if I could. When I was still consulting a few years ago, one of the services my team offered were security assessments.
Some stuff you just don't want to know. You'll sleep better not knowing.
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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