Re: controversial paper

From: Roger Schlafly (rogersc_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/27/03


Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:06:15 GMT


(Previous message was cut off because of a Msft quirk. <g>)
The paper says:
The best estimates of the number of network connected

computers show an increase of 50% per year on a worldwide basis.

This seems high. Consumption of IP addresses is not nearly this high.

> far better, however, if the infrastructure as a whole has redundancies
> that are diverse in their technological nature so that a single
> vulnerability can't bring down everything...

Maybe, but the whole non-Msft world is settling on flavors of unix.
Everything from Apple Macs to IBM mainframes use one of the
unix clones. Where is the diversity?



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