When reading books that draw on history to explain current events, it is almost always disheartening to realize that we do not learn from history, which causes no end of grief. The list of problems was looked at during a 1993 meeting where is was discovered that they all still exist as sources of exploits. Moreover, they are still with us today, about 25 years later, with no expectation of vendors fixing the problems. Moreover, vendors still send out products with poor configurations that are exploitable upon installation. Let us hope that the bazaar will be more successful than the cathedral.
Security needs to be built in from the beginning.
The beginning was a while ago. This a recommended book that gives the reader a insightful, comprehensive picture of ID form the beginning to today. It shares a space on my shelf with the other good books on intrusion detection because it is different enough in its approach and is good source of information.