| Authors: | Hayes, Frank |
| Title: | Expect the worst |
| Full Text: | No |
| Source: | Computerworld 36, no. 44 (Oct 28, 2002): p. 54 Length: 1 Journal Code: COW |
| Standard_No: | ISSN: 0010-4841 CODEN: CMPWAB |
| Detail: | Photograph |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Fourteen years after Robert Morris released a worm that brought the Internet to its knees, the Internet has gotten much faster, bigger and more important to business. Web-based companies depend on it completely, but everyone else counts on getting e-mail and connecting with suppliers and serving customers through the Internet, too. But who really trusts the Internet? Not those businesses, not service providers, and certainly not users. The Internet's biggest advantage against attacks is that people treat it like a rickety system always on the verge of collapse. As much as it is needed, users do not trust it to be fast or reliable or even to work at all - at least at any particular moment. |
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