Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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IT Conversation with Dan Geer He ran development at MIT's Project Athena when Kerberos
and X Windows were developed there, but Dan is more recently
known as the guy who was fired for co-authoring a report
proclaiming the security risks posed by the monoculture
caused by Microsoft's dominance of the software industry.
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Hear
or read
Dan's long-term assessment of our information security
challenges. "As the threat increases the security
perimeter skrinks." But as we shift to protecting
assets at the file-object level, access control
will prove unscalable. The solution, Dan says, is
the introduction of accountability.
And yes, he tells the monoculture story,
too.
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(This is one of my favorite interviews of the past nine months.)
Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:16:57 AM 
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