Security's Failed Past and Risky Future

Security's Failed Past and Risky Future
Jon Lasser, 2003-05-07

Final grumblings from SecurityFocus columnist Jon Lasser, as he bids farewell to the computer security world and moves to Colorado.

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-07
Anonymous (2 replies)

Sorry to hear you're leaving. I will miss your rantings and forthcoming demeanor.

Godspeed....

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
Anonymous (2 replies)

heh, is that a typical *nix goodbye comment?

oh well, I guess sarcasm and disrespect are not purely limited to MS bashing with you guys.

anyways, a very self-glorified and ignorant comment to make for someone's final column. have a nice life putting everyone in the world down to make yourself ...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

No, my comment had no "disrespect" nor demeaning intent at all.

Get off "your" high horse and quit trying to read peoples' minds by what they post.

Thank you... or NOT.

I will miss Lasser's column, whether you wish to believe it or not....

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-12
Anonymous

rantings" is generally a word used to blow someone's "writing" off as babbling garbage. i.e. he's a "ranting baboon". ...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
Anonymous

You're just mad because Jon's cooler than you....

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
Anonymous

Indeed. Your columns have been part of my morning routine for quite a while now.
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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
blacklight (1 replies)

I have enjoyed reading your columns over the last 12 months, and I have the highest regard for your integrity and professionalism. I am sorry to see you go, but I hope that www.securityfocus.com makes a point of leaving the door open for you should you decide to come back.

More and more companies...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-14
Anonymous (1 replies)

"I believe that the vaunted CISSP certification is worthless, because it holds no guarantee that any of its holders have incident response capability. However, it would be a great certification to have if I were a non-technical executive rather than a hands-on line manager, and I wanted to b.s. and ...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-15
blacklight

I'd say that 90% of security breaches originate with some kind of misconfiguration, such as the admittedly extreme example of someone opening up a firewall to test a multimedia application and then not reconfiguring said firewall back to its original state. Successful cracker attacks against some id...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
Anonymous

Man, I completely agree with you...
I wish you all the best in your future......

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
Orlando

I as a young, soon-to-be computer scientist, and a systems auditor intern have come to appreciate your writings. As someone that looks to make things easier and useful for people as it concerns computer technology, security is one of the things that are most important to me. Thats part of the reason...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

Best of luck to you in your future work.

Having said that i fail to see why you'd be upset over the failiure of global security to improve. It's what keeps us employed. Imagine the world without the buffer overflows, without the coding errors and default blank passwords. I personally would muc...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-09
Anonymous

I agree with the frustrations you have on the global improvements in security.

In response to the individual who mentioned that the lack of progress keeps us employed and is better than systems monitoring, I have some things for you to think about.

- How many times can you recommend network ...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-08
A Weary Security Professional

Here! Here! I agree.

Your leaving has started me thinking about enrolling in that photography program I've been looking at.

All the best to you in your new endeavour....

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-09
Anonymous

Security practioners all too often complain about what isn't (and probably will never be.) We should instead be looking at the situation for oppportunities to improve security. If programmers aren't going to change, what is the next option for covering their mistakes and keeping things more secure...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-09
Anonymous

Best of luck to you and I have truly enjoyed and benefited from your thoughts. But one things puzzles me. It seems you have been waiting for a revolution in security. I don't believe that is ever going to happen given human nature, regardless of what is right and best. I tend to see computing in t...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-11
Anonymous

Way to sell out. Everybody knows creative writing is just a quick way to get rich

:) <--- for the humor impaired...

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Congrats, bucko 2003-05-12
curt seeliger

I went back for a masters in soil and botany 11 years ago, so I can tell you from experience the change and effort will be worth it. The fact that I've read your column shows I haven't entirely slipped the surly bonds of life at the keyboard, but I did get a family and a much wider appreciation for...

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Security's Failed Past and Risky Future 2003-05-17
Woodbridge

Jon,

Best wishes, you articles will be missed!

BLittle...

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