The same is true for electronic damage or theft. But the simple methods of probing a site's vulnerabilities are learnt quite rapidly. The scribbling on US Defense Department web sites and the destruction of others are far from sophisticated activities. As Simson Garfinkel has pointed out, most of the information required to become an intruder can be learnt in a few weeks. Institutional Alzheimer's Disease One of the biggest problems confronting us today is, in my opinion loss of memory.
Many contemporaries seem to have no recollection of even the recent past.
One would have hoped that folks in Redmond, WA, might know about that vulnerability. Conclusions Multiuser systems have been around for more than 30 years. Problems with passwords have been with us nearly as long. Those which arise as a result of our connecting computers with telephone wires have been with us for over 20 years. The very existence of an Internet within which one could remotely access a machine was one of the flaws.