Should the Internet Be Secure By Default?
Published on August 06, 2017 at 01:18PM
darthcamaro writes:
There are lots of tools and different secure protocols that could be used by internet service providers to embed security into the fabric of the internet, making the internet secure by default, but that’s not something that Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, Alex Stamos wants to happen. Instead of security by default, his view is that carriers should be neutral and let malicious traffic do whatever it wants.
“I believe strongly in the end-to-end principle, I think we should have neutral carriers in the middle and it should not be the responsibility of ISPs to secure the internet,” Stamos said in a press conference at the Black Hat USA conference last week.
Slashdot reader Darth Technoid disagrees, calling a lack of security “the Original Sin of the Internet,” and speculating that Vint Cerf and Bob Metcalfe “thought that future technology would resolve the issues.” What do other Slashdot readers think?
Should the internet be secure by default?
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