Question on the state of the security industry

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

A couple recent news stories

1)
Intuit warns of credit card risk
http://news.com.com/Intuit+warns+of+credit+card+risk/2100-1029_3-5269821.html



2)
Cyberattacks are soaring, countermeasures are sucking up tons of cash, and 
hardware and software vendors for the most part are sitting it out, *Bob 
Evans* says. But big customers are starting to say enough is enough, so the 
business-technology world is about to get whirled.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=WK0LPHXYB4YSUQSNDBGCKHY?articleID=22104612

...................

i've been saying for some time that after market security is broken by 
design ... it is somewhat like after market seat belts of the 60s. for 
security to work, it has to be designed & built in from the start .... some 
relatively recent comments about after market security:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#39 Oh, here's an interesting paper
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#27 Secure you PC or get kicked off 
the net?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#14 Poor people's OS?

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Anne & Lynn Wheeler    http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ 

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