goofygrin wrote:
radish Wrote:
That would be a disaster. You need to read up on biodiversity and how it
relates to internet security.
You're worried about a single hack taking down everything (coming from
the banking industry, I respect that). But what's worse? A single
point of failure that can be controlled by a single patch across all
users (that server would get hammered! :)) or users floating out there
with different crap in differing states of disarray, etc.
The answer is standards with various vendors. In the IETF things are
properly developed over a long period of time, various vendors
implement them in various ways, and ultimately users demand
interoperability. If you don't interoperate, people don't buy your
device.
The "HTML / Web" world can't seem to get it right. People who program
for only one browser or standardize their business to only one browser
only help to perpetuate the lack of standards and create the lack of
standardized web interface we live in. There are religious holy wars
on what is right and what is wrong with no one ever giving in. I have
equated the web community to high school art students trying to design
the Internet. Maybe the web community can wake up and learn from some
of the actually effective standards bodies some day.
The web browser vendors are not -directly- for profit, but they do
seek market share for indirect business reasons. If we push back and
say we won't use their products unless they standardize, they will
standardize.
--mikeb
Sure the 1%ers out there will want something special/different, but for
95% of the internet community, there will be a sigh of relief when
everything is standardized, security and patches becomes centralized,
and they can quit worrying about their personal information being
stolen via a trojan installed through a security hole (why were they
visiting the warez site in the first place is another conversation).
A solution like this would have to be open source, no other way around
it... I'm sure that the people wrapping it would open up security
holes anyway... so maybe the argument's futile... :/
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