Re: [GZG] [HIST] Military Hackers

In message <909864946.2126303.0@rimmer.acs.bolton.ac.uk>
	  Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca> wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I don't think even a well equipped hacker 
> with a Sparc 1000 and a lot of hacker-info can stand up to a team of 
> 10 anti-hackers with several supercomputers and millions of hours of 
> custom designed anti-hacker software.

Replace the single Sparc equipped hacker (or cracker) with a dozen
armed with a score of supercomputers and millions of hours of custom
desgined cracking software, and the defenders start having problems
again.

> up. And I think we are swinging toward the defensive side of this 
> balance now.... slowly.... soooo verryyyy sloooowly.... But by 2185, 
> this won't be an issue (of course, the till-then history should 
> include several cases of huge infowar successes/disasters to get to 
> that point).

Even if someone does develop an un-crackable OS security system,
sooner or later someone else will upgrade it to the newest, better
version, together with all its new security bugs... :)

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