HOPE and Wiretap News
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Tue Aug 12 05:28:50 PDT 1997
NYT had a front page story yesterday on the HOPE meet.
Featuring hack of NYC's Metrocard, with wry commentary
on new adventures "underground." A quote:
Bruce Schneier, a highly regarded cryptography expert who
spoke at the conference, said experience bad taught him
that hackers often understood computer systems better than
the engineers who designed them.
"Hackers just have a much more holistic view," he said.
Mr. Schneier, who is a consultant to Cubic on the
next-generation Metrocard, said he believes someone will
inevitably figure out a hack. "I believe that, fundamentally,
a system as complicated as the Metrocard
cannot be absolutely secure," he said.
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See full report at:
http://jya.com/beyond-hope2.htm
Aptly, with Bruce's emphasis at HOPE on the need for laws to
punish computer criminals and to close the global jurisdictional
gap so there's no refuge for outlaws, there's Markoff's report
yesterday on a petition to the FCC opposing the FBI's digital
wiretap plan:
http://jya.com/tap-opp.htm
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