Whats the number one security problem with the Internet, and how will we fix it?
A lot of areas are susceptible to attack, but one area touches most of us: email. For all of its benefits, email is clear text. The vulnerability is compounded by TCP/IP. The answer is encryption. Some email is encrypted today, but unfortunately most devices can’t access the encrypted email, and therefore, the standard is a non-standard. Microsoft has said it is rededicating itself to security. Will it succeed? No. Microsoft’s primary focus is increasing its dominance in the market. Strengthening security doesn’t help in that area. One example is what it did with the XP TCP/IP stack. In previous versions of Windows, the core IP address couldn’t be spoofed. That meant that if an attacker was using a Windows-based PC, the attack could be traced back. With XP, Microsoft changed the stack so that the originating IP address can be spoofed, making XP a good hacker PC. If Microsoft were serious about security, it would have left the TCP/IP stack alone. Is biometrics something to watch? For bi
