Musings About Information Security
Gary C. Kessler · 2011
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.-‐- ‐ Ecclesiastes 1:9, circa 200 B.C. No it isn't strange, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same; After changes, we are more or less the same.-‐- ‐ Paul Simon, "The Boxer, " 1968 A.D. Information security vulnerabilities and threats are alive and well today, but this is nothing new. Attacks on data and telecommunications infrastructures have been going on since the development of those infrastructures, and the attacks adapt to the changing technology. This paper is a personal reminisce of how the attack vectors have changed during the career of the author, but the types of attacks remain eerily similar.