keith2468
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-03
Winnipeg, MB
1 edit | reply to Cyberguru
Re: Great Idea
You are correct, this is a very good and very long over due good idea.
The only real solution is (1) a world-wide network of detectors that collect intrusions and exploits, that use a network independent of the internet to simultaneously funnel them back to (2) redundant central points for analysis, (3) (an independent network) to send those analysis out to firewalls and anti-malware scanners ahead of the instrusions spread through the internet, and (4) firewalls and scanners capable of accepting warnings and automatically acting on them (in a user-customized way) to protect the LANs and computers behind them.
(5) The same mechnism could send SMS text messages alerting admins of the impending problem.
(6) This same independent network could be used for supplemental human communications on resolving problems if the internet failed.
The current security situation on the internet prevents free speech by making it to easy to disrupt free speech, and making it too easy for others to impersonate us.
The current situation means that we cannot really trust those we talk to on the internet to be who they claim to be, nor to be who they were last week. (That is, we would never know if someones that we know only by a nickname is the same someone that had that nickname last week.)
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