[ih] Vint Cerf on BBC WS

[galmes at tamu.edu (Guy Almes)]

Bill,
   Actually very interesting.  And your comment is correct about Vint's 
first appearance in the program.
   The appearance near the end was more problematic.  Vint was enthusing 
about google's self-driving cars and similar projects.  But the context 
in which he was quoted (which I suspect he was not aware of) was all 
about an increasingly *insecure* net in which hackers could access your 
systems.  After discussing hackers accessing photos you think are 
private, the obvious implication is that they could hack into your 
self-driving car and other machine-to-machine applications.
   In that context, Vint's second quote (while quite correct and even 
insightful) came off as na?ve.
   Reporters.  Grumble,
	-- Guy

On 5/12/12 2:24 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Shocked that BBC interviewed someone knowledgeable of Internet History
> for their internet dangers series !
>
>         *Danger in the Download* - Part Two
>
>         Tue, 8 May 12
>
>         Is the Internet's original architecture and governance still fit
>         for purpose? Or has it gone out of control and become hopelessly
>         insecure?
>
>         http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20120508-1708a.mp3
>
>
> (Vint is in there twice, near the beginning and near the end. He made a
> good point that the Net's insecure origin is excusable as it was most of
> a decade prior to public key crypto becoming public.)
>
> --
> Bill
> @n1vux bill.n1vux at gmail.com <mailto:bill.n1vux at gmail.com>