Comments on: Internet Security and other Stuff https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=29 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 02:13:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: steel buildings https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-1370 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 02:13:27 +0000 /?p=29#comment-1370 I agree that nothing is ever completely secure. It is a good thing that there are some amazing hackers out there. They help keep technology moving forward!

]]> By: Liam https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-56 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:09:07 +0000 /?p=29#comment-56 It’s important to note that nothing is ever completely secure. All you can hope to do is give yourself a good chance.

It’s also interesting to note about MP3’s, people who are really into sound quality continually bemoan the loss of quality an MP3 encoding will have. Likewise with people who stand by vinyl over CD’s. What I got out of that article is that the information is more complex than just the words or the sounds. There are definitely intangibles we lose when we change data from one format to another.

]]> By: Jean-Sebastien https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-46 Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:30:42 +0000 /?p=29#comment-46 I think software security will be an eternal problem. If we look back in the history all software security technologies that were though to be unbreakable have been broken. Everytime somebody invent a new security technology, somebody find a way to break it. I don’t think it will ever be possible to completely secure the internet. But what is even more scary is that the cryptography technologies that are currently widely use by all financial institutions, government etc… might soon be easily breakable. This could have disastrous consequences. I will do another post about that shortly.

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