From the 11/19/10 Montreal Gazette:
"It's long weeks to short months at best before there's a security meltdown," said [Brian] Snow [a former senior technical director at the U.S. National Security Agency], as a guest lecturer for the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance, an interdisciplinary group at the university dedicated to information security.
"Will a bank failure be the wake-up call before we act? It's a global problem — not just the U.S., not just Canada, but the world."
The complete article, entitled "Total cyber-meltdown almost inevitable, expert tells Calgary audience," includes Snow attributing much of the lack of security to sotware code and to complexity.
The article propmpted an interesting discussion at the blog Schneier on Security at this link. Included are comments that Snow is highly respected and one of the "sharpest tools in the factory." [The latter probably being an allusion to the NSA being known as "The Shadow Factory," particularly after James Bamford's book of the same name.]
Please note that the The Calgary Herald owns the copyright to the original article.
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