Re: The Relative Importance of Web Development


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Pete Dashwood wrote:
"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes the Web is important - but nobody commented about Estonia ????

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2082689,00.html

Do a google 'estonia-networks' for more info.

The impact can be frightening, and we should all be concerned. Worth
remembering what initially triggered this was the Estonians moving a
WWII Russian memorial. What would Putnin and friends have done if the
Estonians had shot russkies !

Jimmy

Didn't know about this (I don't read newspapers, they depress me :-)),
but it is not the first time this has happened. There was a major attack
on Israel a couple of years back.

Rather than being frightened by it, I find it interesting and the counter
measures are "challenging". (there have been some very innovative and
imaginative methods devised for countering DOS attacks.)

Counter measures have been constructed and implemented effectively in the
past, but it takes a day or so for the results to be apparent. Even in
Estonia they said that most companies and departments targeted were
working normally.

I think your final sentence is significant, Jimmy. The fact is that they
DIDN'T shoot people, on either side. I'd rather see computers "at war"
than humans.

The inconvenience of having an ATM not work for a couple of days pales
into insignificance besides the horror of having a friend or loved one
shot...

Pete.

Or every traffic light in the world turning green at the same moment. Or
every aircraft in the world being told to dive immediately to avoid a
collision. I do not think I agree with you that every computer program
should have a web interface.

That's good, because that isn't what I said. I was talking about commercial
software (Front Office and Back Office, specifically)

Read it again.

There are lots and lots of programs where it would/should never be used,
and it would be a huge security problem.

Only today. In the future the Web will permeate our lives to such an extent
that we won't even notice it. Even jewellery and clothing will be "web
aware"... imagine wearing glasses that whisper in your ear the name of the
person approaching you at a party, their spouse, children's name, their job,
the names of their cat and dog, and their hobbies and interests, all
accessed instantly from your database of contacts, via the Internet....

However, my comments were limited to commercial software.

To assume that all code is financial is naive ... I would have thought you
more astute than that.


I made no such assumption, and clearly stated what my comments pertained to.
It had nothing to do with aeroplanes or traffic lights or engine management
or anything else, other than competitive commerce in a business environment.

Thank you for crediting me with some astuteness. I'll endeavour to see that
your trust is not misplaced. :-)

Pete.


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