Hi Saich, saich wrote:
There are a lot of crazy guys out there who are pondering on this question and in order to stop them u have to be ahead of the game and think like them.
Be under no illusion, that there are equally lots of crazy guys who would want the internet to stay up. The same folks who cause mayhem on the internet would turn out to begging if the internet ceased to exist. The only reason we have them online is because there's a revenue stream by making folks see and pay for Internet security. That's what Proactive Internet Investigation is all
about.
If you take a moment to read the urls that has been posted you will see there are lots of new developments on the internet towards keeping it more secure and stable. Theres a new extension to the DNS protocl to safeguard against DNS spoofing and cache poisoning called DNSSEC There's ongoing development of routing security and introduction of a PKI X.509 - http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/pkix-charter.html IPv6 makes it harder for port and IP number scanning to happen. It reduces random attacks on networks compared to IPv4. What we have learned with time is that our biggest challenge is not the technology but the human factor. We are still vulnerable when it comes to social engineering and thats something we have to deal with. There's alot more going on, you are welcome to join and contribute to the communities that volunteer their time and resources to keep the Internet stable and usable. Regards, Mich.