The Internet Is a Very Sick Place
After reading The Internet Is a Very Sick Place @ Wired.com, it seems clear to me that the industry is failing miserably at learning from its mistakes. These neanderthal authors keep nailing us with the same old out of the box, let's see if this will work again, I have 5 minutes with nothing better to do so let's create some havoc, type viruses. We are not even nipping at their tails... not even forcing them to be creative and stay one step ahead of us. No. Instead we keep bending over and taking the same beating with same stick, over and over.
Perhaps I am expecting too much, or perhaps the industry realizes there is more money to be made by not addressing the fundamental shortcomings of our software/hardware.
Or could it be that “Joe“ users out there are so brain dead and incompetent, that regardless of efforts to curb these vulnerabilities, we are hopelessley doomed to the reality that they will always be suckered into propagating these viruses?
Am I alone here? Should we not be doing a better job?
The year 2003 has been deemed the worst in computer-virus history by security experts, despite the fact that worm and virus writers displayed no significant technological progress in the code of their newest nasty little creations.
But why bother to develop new tricks when the old ones work so well? This year computer worms managed to shut down ATMs, slow airline and train travel by infecting reservation and signaling systems, clog emergency phone services, and crash networks controlling critical systems at hospitals and at least one nuclear power plant.