RE: Just a comment

["McCallion, Martin" <martin.mccallion@xxxxxxxxx>]

ken shields wrote:

>       The articles recently about Internet security are
> interesting and eye
> opening, I particularly liked the Pulpit article re TCP/MS.
>       The problem as I see it is not one of Internet
> security,but one of the
> corporate world placing all their eggs in one Internet basket.
>       In the past, it was important to provide a sceure
> fallback to your
> communications network, either via phone transmission, or other means.

Well, remember that the internet was designed to keep going even in the
face of a (limited) nuclear war; so it should be resilient enough to
cope with just about anything.

>       Lately it seems, it's the Internet or nothing, and" Oh
> my God we have a
> virus, we'll have to be down for days clearing it up and restoring
> data!"

I don't really see the connection.  OK, you probably got the virus via
the internet, but if it had come in via another external connection, or
on an infected CD-ROM, you'd be no more or less down.

>       The other problem is, an assumption in many areas, that
> wisdom in the field of information technology will roll forward
> and we will gain from the decades of their problems and ability to
> overcome.
>       Wisdom and experience it seems, retires, or changes
> professions

True.  But the web, Usenet and mail lists can become the repository of
that wisdom.  Personally I can barely remember how we worked without
them.

>       Common sense often takes a back seat to corporate profits...

That's certainly true, sadly.

Cheers,

Martin.

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