| Vint Cerf Wants Secure Internet 2.0
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engine
msg:4373294 | 4:35 pm on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Vint Cerf Wants Secure Internet 2.0 [ft.com]
Mr Cerf, known as one of the fathers of the internet, acknowledges that he and co-founder Bob Kahn didn’t think enough about security when they built the framework for the web. He shares a view held by a growing number of experts that the best way to defend against cyberattacks might be to simply start again, with “Internet 2”.
“I would have put a much stronger focus on authenticity or authentication – where did this email come from, what device I am talking to . . . those things are elements that would make a big difference,” Mr Cerf says.
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rocknbil
msg:4373695 | 5:01 pm on Oct 12, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I vote YES. What do we do when a client comes to us for help and everyone who has "helped" them has made a mess of their sites?
We scrap the whole thing and start over.
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incrediBILL
msg:4373743 | 6:23 pm on Oct 12, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Wouldn't it be cheaper to simply put hackers in front of a firing squad?
Bullets are less than a buck, way cheaper than a complete internet rebuild for a single computer.
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rocknbil
msg:4374113 | 7:17 pm on Oct 13, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Yes, but the garbage collection service to find them would put the world in bankruptcy. Oh wait . . . too late . . .
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incrediBILL
msg:4374187 | 9:44 pm on Oct 13, 2011 (gmt 0) |
No garbage collection required, composting, it's green :)
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walkman
msg:4375250 | 11:09 pm on Oct 16, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Whatever he was before, he now is a Google employee so take his "authenticity or authentication" comments with a grain of salt. Note that Google is trying to do an identity service with G+.
[guardian.co.uk...]
| However, that [Facebook] left Cerf bombarded with information about "what these friends were doing" news he conceded "I couldn't care about". He contrasted that with Google's rival Google+ system, which uses a system of 'circles' to allow members to distinguish between different spheres of connection, such as family and work colleagues - which Cerf argued gives people more control over who they share news and personal information with. |
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