Back to the Insecure Future

Back to the Insecure Future
Richard Forno, 2002-11-13

Web services, such as Microsoft's .NET platform, represent a return to centralized computing. They also pose some serious security issues.

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Back to the Insecure Future 2002-11-13
Anonymous

George Orwell had it wrong.

Big brother is not a government. He is a corporation....

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FUD, FUD, eggs, FUD, baked beans, and FUD 2002-11-14
TL (1 replies)

"Web services, such as Microsoft's .NET platform..."

I've rarely seen a column on SF that loses all credibility after the first half of the first sentence.

To claim that the .NET platform is an inherent risk to information security and a dangerous move towards Microsoft controlled computing is...

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FUD, FUD, eggs, FUD, baked beans, and FUD 2002-11-14
Gerry (1 replies)

Yeah, but the concept - whether it is from Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, whoever - still has its vulnerabilities, which the article mentions. The author probably used .NET because it's not only from the biggest software company, but the one that's got the most chance to succeeed (somewhat) in the marketpl...

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FUD, FUD, eggs, FUD, baked beans, and FUD 2002-11-16
Anonymous

No it doesn't. .NET is a development framework - nothing more. Even Microsoft has admitted its marketing mistakes in trying to wrap "web services" up with .NET originally.

You might as well be saying J2EE is a threat to security.

No - as always - only a poor implementation of it will be detr...

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Back to the Insecure Future 2002-11-26
Bob Radvanovsky

"So how will this new dynamic affect the fundamental principles of security, i.e. the confidentiality, integrity, and availability data in the information environments? Fundamental to this analysis is my prediction that emergent laws and hardware changes will significantly diminish the ability of us...

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