Re: Internal vs external threats, any references?

1999-10-04 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jeff says/asks, > > > A commonly-held conception in the commercial world (in my experience) is that > > most threats to "corporate security" come from the Internet-at-large, and > > therefore being behind a firewall is a Good Thing and generally Sufficient. > > I be

Re: Internal vs external threats, any references?

1999-10-04 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >A commonly-held conception in the commercial world (in my experience) is that >most threats to "corporate security" come from the Internet-at-large, and >therefore being behind a firewall is a Good Thing and generally Sufficient. > >Of

London Times on quantum crypto

1999-10-04 Thread K. M. Ellis
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/29/timintint02001.html?1341 861 No Safety in Numbers After an Israeli research institute said it could break Europe's banking codes in less than a second, an intitiative has been launched that could result in unbreakable codes. The European In

Re: Internal vs external threats, any references?

1999-10-04 Thread David Honig
At 08:57 AM 10/4/99 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: >How does this trojan horse or virus get onto the targetted computer? I >don't know what you run behind your firewalls, but I certainly don't run >anything that could get trojaned or virused. Yes, but you're not the only one on your LAN. Is everyone a

Re: London Times on quantum crypto

1999-10-04 Thread Peter Gutmann
"K. M. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/29/timintint02001.html?1341861 This story is like the creeping slow spam from hell, I think it's now appeared once on every crypto list I read. It consists of a series of out-of-context extracts, half

Re: Internal vs external threats, any references?

1999-10-04 Thread Marc Horowitz
Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How does this trojan horse or virus get onto the targetted computer? I >> don't know what you run behind your firewalls, but I certainly don't run >> anything that could get trojaned or virused. There are very few interesting sites which don't have large