Archived Online security increasingly feels patched-up. What changes are needed to create a secure, better internet? (AskVoat)
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Archived Online security increasingly feels patched-up. What changes are needed to create a secure, better internet? (AskVoat)
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[–] Voatify 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Do you agree with my statement that every one of the points you mention has been steadily improving over the years, and are as secure as they've ever been? Ref: DNSSEC etc.
What I don't see is what l0pht supposedly warned about ~20 years ago that haven't been radically improved over the years. As far as I know, the Internet has never been more secure, and this smells terribly of FUD.
[–] dijit 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I agree with your statement completely, I'd go so far as to say it's good that we did nothing at that time (open protocol wise).
The problems with memory management are becoming less and less now that compute is there and high level languages are making up more and more popular software as time goes on.
and having "insecure but flexible" protocols allows us to craft better protocols on top of existing infrastructure and hardware.
but we still have things to fix, DNSSEC doesn't stop UDP amplification attacks, even if it stopped DNS amplification there's a whole mess of other things which can reply with large UDP packets. (Like NTP)