Epicure_mammon |
I'm not crazy cause I take the RIGHT pills :) |
Tue 2nd Dec '08 12:34PM |
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12th Dec '06 |
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There are several major security flaws in the internet as it currently stands. Mostly because when it was originally implemented it was, effectively, a group of mates with connectivity between them. To give you an idea, the internet in 1977 looked like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Arpnet-map-march-1977.png
Each of those boxes is a computer!
This is what it looks like now:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Internet_map_1024.jpg
And it is an amazing achievement on behalf of the protocol designers that it works at all!
DNSSEC, and its partner, BGPSEC which fixes another major, but less well known, security vulnerability are both extremely difficult things to completely roll out. The only realistic way it can be done is for the DNS/BGP providers to say "we have the facility - if you don't use it we can't guarantee that you won't get cracked"
The journalism in the article is melodramatic, but the impact which he implies is about right - the internet is, potentially, completely broken 
On other strange internet developments - why is it called "Web 2.0" and not "Web 2" is someone planning a patch release to fix the bugs?
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