Failure
Category miscellaneous
InfoWorld recently (21-Jan-08) published a list of the top 25 information technology flops of all time. The greatest failure, they rightly point out, is the dreadful 'security' mess we've got ourselves into:
InfoWorld recently (21-Jan-08) published a list of the top 25 information technology flops of all time. The greatest failure, they rightly point out, is the dreadful 'security' mess we've got ourselves into:
If auto manufacturers approached safety the same way that software makers handle security, we'd all be driving Ford Pintos and Yugos. And airline security would resemble the "systems" that buses use to catch fare-dodgers. Now that we've built a digital world on an insecure foundation, the solutions for security are really hard – maybe too hard. We may just need to live with the fact that computer technology is largely unsecure, so caveat utilisator.But then, judged a greater failure than DRM, or even the 'paperless office' joke, is, well, guess which operating system. Did you guess right?
