[Discuss] Port Scanning

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 14:41:47 -0700
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> Since the term "zero trust" was first coined (30-bleeping years ago!,
> in 1994) we have tailored a *lot* of stuff, from scratch. The entire
> cloud, for example, a lot by any standard. We mostly built all from
> scratch, following *no* ones version of zero trust. We could have,
> but it seems we didn't bother to even consider the possibility.

Because 40 years ago there were maybe 50,000 nodes on ARPANET. The
public network wasn't so public and wasn't full of script kiddies and
APTs and just generally hostile everything. Computer viruses were
mostly harmless pranks and "spam email" was a term that had not yet
been coined. Everything since is built on that very open
infrastructure. And only recently have the costs of security failures
started to exceed the costs of security.

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