We're the good guys, building systems that all work with each other, reliably. The Interhack Web had its start in the summer of 1997, originally conceived as a virtual soapbox for a small computing research group. From that time forward, the site grew slowly but regularly into a repository of information about Internet infrastructure, security, and privacy. In 1999, we decided that we could have the greatest impact in making the Internet work better for everyone as a for-profit enterprise, using revenue from consulting and software development to continue to fund our research work. We aligned ourselves with a local consultancy and then formed Interhack Corporation in the first quarter of 2000.
Few consultancies can make such a claim.
We have been advocating widespread adoption of the Internet and have been working to build it for a long time. Unfortunately, security is an afterthought in many systems. In many others, the issue of security is never seriously considered at all. Information systems become increasingly fat targets for bad guys as society becomes increasingly dependent upon those information systems. The lack of attention to security details creates a dangerous situation.