FUD and the Slammer Worm
Why the mainstream still does not get the InterWeb
Baldwin said one way to prevent problems might be to require companies that do businesses on the Web to use a separate, yet-to-be-invented "secure Internet" and then connect to the wider Net from behind that barrier.
"Right now, you have an infrastructure that allows anyone to connect without standards," he said. "That creates a major threat. [Businesses] are exposing services on the Internet that have no business being exposed."
Bullshit. Right now, you have an infrastructure that allows anyone to connect without standards What do you call udp, or tcp? Of course there are standards, just not ones that business likes - a standard that offers the greatest interoperability and connectivity, over a whole class of machines. Connectivity that operates in many different ways, with limited control or impedence. The standards of the internet and how we all communicate through it, is useful and valid - those who do not update their boxes, or those whoe write shoddy code are to blame. Not the infrastructure. Beware those who promise "security," because it will be something that none of us will like, or want. But once enacted, you can never go back. I mean, whats wrong with SSL? As long as you have lazy and/or overworked sysadmins, exploits such as those that this worm used will persist.
"Right now, you have an infrastructure that allows anyone to connect without standards," he said. "That creates a major threat. [Businesses] are exposing services on the Internet that have no business being exposed."
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