[LINK] RFC: 'The [Insecure] Future of Consumer Computing'
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Sat Jan 15 17:15:19 AEDT 2011
[Sorry about the erroneous re-send at 15:27. It was meant to go to
an individual, but it escaped ... ]
Thanks to the several people who've offered valuable feedback already.
Bruce Schneier works on some similar themes in this piece out today,
although he says he's looking a bit further into the future.
Security 2020
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1101.html#1
Originally written as a foreword to "Security 2020," by
Doug Howard and Kevin Prince.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470639555/counterpane/
This bit reads well (as Bruce always does. What? me? green with envy?):
" ... IT in 2020 -- it's not under your control, it's doing things
without your knowledge and consent, and it's not necessarily acting
in your best interests. And this is how things will be when they're
working as they're intended to work; I haven't even started talking
about the bad guys yet".
But I don't think it's all that futuristic. Try this small variant:
" ... IT in 2011 -- it's not under your control, it's doing things
without your knowledge and consent, and it's not necessarily acting
in your best interests. And this is how things [are] when they're
working as they're intended to work; I haven't even started talking
about the bad guys yet".
The APF's second submission to the Senate's Online Privacy Inquiry,
on 30 Nov 2010, said this:
"Of much greater concern than expressly criminal behaviour is the
'mainstreaming' of malware and malbehaviour, by which is meant their
adoption by corporations as weapons against consumers". We used the
present tense, not the future tense:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/Sen-OLP-Sub2-101130.pdf
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