From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> Many of you will have read the recent report of the FBI claiming
> security breaches rose by 250% over the past couple of years, well the
> following is from a US lawyers listserve...
>
Security consciousness is likely to *raise* the number of reported
intrusions.
In my view, two things, primarily, are responsible for the //decrease//
reported by CERT.
(1) CERT is becoming progressively marginalised by other players.
(2) Low skill attacks are so common, they are presumed to be
par-for-the-course in relation to internet connectivity.
System admins realise that their Cliff-Stoll playing days
are over, and the best strategy is to minimise escalation
and consequential loss, resulting not from the hacker-attack
per-se, but the response to it.
What that FBI figure doesn't tell you, is that the rise is in-line with
the growth of the network itself. Stating, for instance, that the number
of murders in Chicago rose 250% from 1890 to 1933 is mischievous, if the
number of people also rose 250%.
Cheers,
Julian.
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Received on Fri Apr 17 08:41:24 1998