When he goes to Washington, D.C. next week to testify before the U.S. Congress on computer and Internet security, Bruce Schneier, the CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, would like to tell them that such efforts are currently done poorly and with the wrong goals.. . .
When he goes to Washington, D.C. next week to testify before the U.S. Congress on computer and Internet security, Bruce Schneier, the CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, would like to tell them that such efforts are currently done poorly and with the wrong goals.

He will also tell Congress that "the Internet is too complex to secure," as he said in a speech on the last day of the Black Hat Briefings security conference here Thursday.

"Often when I tell people that, they get very disturbed," he said. But nonetheless, "we're losing ground every year," because every new product is less secure; every new level of complexity or integration makes a product less secure, he said.

Events seem to bear out his conclusions: despite there being more computer security companies and software than at any other time, viruses, worms, Web page defacements and other security incidents are seemingly happening more often than ever before.

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