10 years on: 5 big changes to computer security
Summary
The script kiddies are almost gone, pushed out by the professional hacker gangs that make millions of dollars each day victimizing home users and corporations with almost no threat of being caught or prosecuted. They steal private documents and emails, along with patents and contracts, as easily as child would pluck flowers in a vast golden field. Although there are notable exceptions (such as Sony Pictures), computer infrastructure and the Internet have become so integral to business today, rarely is a whole company taken offline in response to even the biggest threats. When I first started in computer security, only the government or top secret research facilities forced employees to use smartcards or other multifactor authentication tools. Police and government agencies are trying to scare us into getting rid of default encryption or enabling backdoors in the name of stopping child molesters and other criminals.
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