I had the honor and privilege of meeting
Richard Clark this week at
eweeks Security Summit in New York City. Richard has become famous for issuing warnings and now he’s calling for buggy software to be fixed, “your software sucks”. I don’t ever recall hearing the word “sucks” from a man of his generation and status, but he did get everybody’s attention. Had he been as forceful on
August 9, 2001 we may have averted a tragedy. Now he is calling for
regulations and focus groups to go after the software industry. Teenage
hackers are not the big problem today; it’s the
hackers we don’t know about. Are they getting inside our nations
power companies? Are we on the verge of yet another tragedy?