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Date Posted:
Tuesday October 21, 2003 02:09:28 PM
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I want to take issue with this analogy...
KABAY: Say that somebody broke into your house and opened the bottles of food in your refrigerator and then put the bottles back and left a note saying, "I opened the bottles to see what was in them but I didn't do any harm." Do you think anybody in his or her right mind would eat or drink the food in the bottles? That would be nuts. A stranger has entered a region of trust, your refrigerator, and done unknown things without your permission and observation to your food. Criminal hackers should understand that if an organization trusts the data and the program on a computer for business critical functions, then once a stranger has entered the system without permission the program or data are no longer trustworthy. I use that example for my students when I'm teaching to get over this profoundly ignorant perception or statement by the criminal.
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We need a better analogy. The cracker breaks in and assures us our data assets have not been vandalized. We will run MD5 over our data and see if the hash is identical to the MD5 hash we obtained before the security breech.
I'm not sure what equivalent to MD5 I have for the cold pizza slices in my refrigerator.
Message edited by: yamada on Tuesday October 21, 2003 02:10:01 PM
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