S1, Ep.2 CLIP | Geoff Huston on Why the Internet is "Busted"

[Music] in an october 2020 article on zdnet in a column called the full tilt you apologize for bringing the internet to australia saying quote the internet is a gigantic vanity reinforcing distorted tick tock selfie and web security is the punch line to some demented sick joke why do you feel the internet is busted oh oh it's so broken it's not funny [Music] it's busted because you know out there on on the wires it's so toxic it radiates in the dark the amount of background traffic saturates real traffic the amount of malware out there almost big as description almost everything that we look at that we talk about is actually all about malware craig lebovitz is recent talk at nanook 82 sort of highlights is there's so much of it and part of the reason is i think what was originally an exciting venture in the academic and research domain about how to make computers talk we made it really cheap and really easy and then sort of cottoned onto why doesn't everyone do this and the answer was well yeah let's do this but then never quite figured out that it actually makes all kinds of things easy including annoying other people annoying other countries annoying our infrastructure and when you get to that scale you start to worry about a few other things there's been a lot of studies about how good we are as coders and way way back i'm forgetting it was either lockheed or boeing or ibm out of every 10 lines of code there's one error all the time because we're people and you know people who write code don't necessarily write brilliant code they code by the hour and they it happens with all kinds of skills and all kinds of code is pretty cruddy and so at the base on which we've built this astonishing edifice is a base that's just disappointingly bad and no matter where you look you see exploits left right and center now in some ways you kind of go oh well it's just a little bit of email it's not that bad a problem but these days the city's network traffic grid our electricity system our lives all rely on this infrastructure and and the problem is that foundation is astonishingly bad [Music] you

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Published: Tue Sep 21 2021