[903] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: FBI: Hacker sold 100,000 credit card numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Fri May 23 14:42:58 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970523134301.00a65710@pop.rv.tis.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 13:27:36 -0600
To: John Pescatore <johnp@tis.com>
From: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
At 1:43 PM -0400 5/23/97, John Pescatore wrote:
>Mass market operating systems will always be security feeble, much the way
>most internal doors have pretty feeble locks.
Iron bars and Medeco locks are generally used on external entries in high
crime areas. The Internet appears to qualify as a high crime area, but the
market for iron bars is currently dominated by black painted styrofoam (C2
evaluated!). There's not as much market for genuine iron -- styrofoam looks
just as good, is easier to install, and it costs less.
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com
