via CIO
Amoroso of AT&T believes that the fundamental security problem is that during the past decade, and quite unintentionally, the network’s intelligence has migrated to the edge…He thinks AT&T can make a ton of money off this idea: Return control to the network providers (like his own company’s phone system in the 1970s, he says, a time when Ma Bell controlled everything, including the technology’s interface), and let the providers charge you for doing all of the filtering, traffic analytics, worm detection and incident response.
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Guns are dangerous; therefore, we license them. We give them unique serial numbers and control their distribution. James Whittaker says programmable PCs are dangerous, so why not treat them like guns?
Amazing! Who let these self-declared savior-of-the-net out of in the open?
