Excerpt from "Online security doesn't exist" by David Goldman
LAS VEGAS (CNNMoney) -- One of the big jokes at this year's Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas is that there is no such thing as cybersecurity. No system can be 100% secure. There is no uncrackable code. "Security, in effect, sucks," said Richard Thieme, a prolific writer and professional speaker on the impact of new technologies on society. "Security professionals feel overwhelmed because they can't do security."
Cybersecurity vendors and antivirus software firms advertise that they can keep companies, agencies and people safe. Yet antivirus programs can't stop every attack. And every day a new company or government organization announces that they've been compromised.
"Our whole industry is built on smoke and mirrors," said Thieme at Black Hat Thursday. "What we have is fundamentally broken. Cryptography is the opiate of the naive. So how can we use the word 'security' when we don't mean it?"
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