[Cryptography] Will We Ever Learn?

[Stephen Farrell]

On 14/04/18 02:01, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> The Morris worm was in 1988. That's all you need to know about what is
> really going on with internet security.
>  A worm crashed the internet, and everyone's response is to do nothing.

That not a useful description in at least two ways: 1) CERTs were
started in response, and 2) almost nobody cared - the Internet
wasn't important to anywhere near "everyone" in 1988.

While I agree it'd be better if more people cared more, we should
argue based on accurate information.

S.

> That wasn't 2017, that was 1988.
> 
> Actually the response may have been spy on all the communications to
> discover the perpetrator.
> 
> 
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