ON THE RADIO
"What do you think are the dangers that come out of too credulous treatment on the [cyberthreats]?"
Answer: "It diffuses realistic thinking ... the central thing that I try to give people to take away from this is that we're built on fundamentally insecure systems. And there was a time many, many years ago that maybe something could have been done about this. But now it's essentially in place and they're just putting stuff on top of it ... So it has to be managed and that's part of the day to day business of anyone who decides they're going to carry out parts of their lives or put their livelihoods or engage with globally networked computers, so it's part of the overhead. It's not actually an added thing that one can just caught off, it's part of the cost ...
"If we go back to the example of the North Korean cyberattack ... if it hadn't made news, what would the people who had to deal with it on the websites [felt] who had to deal with the slowdown on the technical level, what they have thought? Well, it's just another day at work ... There's going to be times whens the world deals some hard hands and bad things happen but you can't predict or make a prognostication that people are just going to stand around wringing their hands, that's just not how life works. People work together to put things back together."
Richard Chirgwin, who runs A Series of Tubes, a technology radio broadcast for the Net, and he interviewed DD all the way from Australia here.
Turned out pretty good, it did, except for the sound quality on my side of Pacific. Which made me sound intriguingly beamed in from another cosmos. But it's very lucid and worthwhile, if you enjoy such things. If you want to skip the intro and get right to DD, although all of it is quite scintillating, skip forward to the 18:30 point or so.
"What do you think are the dangers that come out of too credulous treatment on the [cyberthreats]?"
Answer: "It diffuses realistic thinking ... the central thing that I try to give people to take away from this is that we're built on fundamentally insecure systems. And there was a time many, many years ago that maybe something could have been done about this. But now it's essentially in place and they're just putting stuff on top of it ... So it has to be managed and that's part of the day to day business of anyone who decides they're going to carry out parts of their lives or put their livelihoods or engage with globally networked computers, so it's part of the overhead. It's not actually an added thing that one can just caught off, it's part of the cost ...
"If we go back to the example of the North Korean cyberattack ... if it hadn't made news, what would the people who had to deal with it on the websites [felt] who had to deal with the slowdown on the technical level, what they have thought? Well, it's just another day at work ... There's going to be times whens the world deals some hard hands and bad things happen but you can't predict or make a prognostication that people are just going to stand around wringing their hands, that's just not how life works. People work together to put things back together."
Richard Chirgwin, who runs A Series of Tubes, a technology radio broadcast for the Net, and he interviewed DD all the way from Australia here.
Turned out pretty good, it did, except for the sound quality on my side of Pacific. Which made me sound intriguingly beamed in from another cosmos. But it's very lucid and worthwhile, if you enjoy such things. If you want to skip the intro and get right to DD, although all of it is quite scintillating, skip forward to the 18:30 point or so.
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