(February 17, 2012 at 6:30 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: The problem is that even if it were possible to invent a new internet, wouldn't that one then become vulnerable as hackers figure out how to conduct cyber attacks? And stupid people will still fall for phishing scams. You can't fix the internet without fixing all its users.
Yes. The biggest security issue by far is the one that is between the keyboard and the chair. All of the technical measures in the world won't keep the user from being phished, socially engineered, choosing shitty passwords, falling for a fake SSL certificate, letting their AV subscription lapse or not update, or having a MITM attack on a secure connection. And since many people seem to be perfectly happy to install trojan-ridden software as long as it's free...
This is not to say that there aren't technical flaws - there are, and they are being continually addressed. We have a larger problem with people, and that's something that apparently can't be fixed through technical means and is a much tougher problem. You can't force people to care about security.
