{"id":10720,"date":"2011-08-16T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2011-08-16T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T16:40:08","slug":"charles-stross-on-the-future-of-network-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/charles-stross-on-the-future-of-network-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Stross on the future of network security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles isn&#8217;t a professional in network security, but he has a good track record of exploring the consequences of new technology in his science fiction works. He was invited to give the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2011\/08\/usenix-2011-keynote-network-se.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">keynote address<\/a> at the 2011 USENIX conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Unlike you, I am not a security professional. However, we probably share a common human trait, namely that none of us enjoy looking like a fool in front of a large audience. I therefore chose the title of my talk to minimize the risk of ridicule: if we should meet up in 2061, much less in the 26th century, you\u2019re welcome to rib me about this talk. Because I\u2019ll be happy to still be alive to rib.<\/p>\n<p>So what follows should be seen as a farrago of speculation by a guy who earns his living telling entertaining lies for money.<\/p>\n<p>The question I\u2019m going to spin entertaining lies around is this: what is network security going to be about once we get past the current sigmoid curve of accelerating progress and into a steady state, when Moore\u2019s first law is long since burned out, and networked computing appliances have been around for as long as steam engines?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to start by making a few basic assumptions about the future, some implicit and some explicit: if only to narrow the field. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles isn&#8217;t a professional in network security, but he has a good track record of exploring the consequences of new technology in his science fiction works. He was invited to give the keynote address at the 2011 USENIX conference. Unlike you, I am not a security professional. However, we probably share a common human trait, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[109,58,154,334],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-internet","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2MU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10721,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions\/10721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}