1. Nov 29th, 2005

    Don’t take my word for it

    Security expert: More sophisticated attacks likely

    That’s what the InfoWorld headline reads. Security experts want to warn us of more sophisticated attacks to come, but not really, only maybe, depending on how the weather turns out.

    The thing is, you have to be logical about security, you can’t just hide behind words. So let’s review what our future holds:

    1. Peace on earth, everyone lives in harmony, no more security attacks, free wi-fi for all.
    2. Everyone switches back to Windows 95, making life easier on virus writers, and every script kiddie can hack your bank account.
    3. Better, more secure software comes out, public awareness, faster response time. Crooks up the ante by staging more sophisticated attacks.

    Now, we have no proof that world peace will never happen, we just can’t take that as a safe assumption. And who’s to say that no. 2 will never happen? So really, the best we can say about option 3 is that it’s “likely”. It just all makes sense.

    And in unrelated news, deaths from car accidents in 2006, likely …

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    1. Dec 9th, 2005

      Labnotes » Blog Archive » Usenet 2.0

      [...] You want timely? You have to accept that the choice of words will not be perfect. You want honesty? You have to accept that ideas won’t come wrapped in qualifiers intended to devalue them of any meaning. [...]

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