IP: It is irresponsible to sell a product...

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: "Ed Gerck"<egerck@nma.com>
Sent: 7/31/02 2:06:27 PM
To: "Dave Farber"<farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: It is irresponsible to sell a product...

Dave:

You may have seen this, but it's now becoming a clear call to improve
authentication/encryption to stop crime and terrorism -- seemingly 
gaining over the other camp saying that increasing authentication/encryption 
might aid crime and terrorism. 

Cheers -- Ed Gerck

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In an earlier speech at the same conference, President Bush's top cyber-security
adviser, Richard Clarke, said the technology industry was acting irresponsibly by
selling wireless tools such as computer network devices that remain remarkably easy
for hackers to attack.

The industry's most common data-scrambling technique designed to keep out
eavesdroppers, called the wireless encryption protocol, can be broken ? usually in
less than five minutes ? with software available on the Internet.

"It is irresponsible to sell a product in a way that can be so easily misused by a
customer in a way that jeopardizes their confidential and proprietary and sensitive
information," Clarke said.
...

In http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2002-07-31-defense-wireless_x.htm
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