Гласность в Рунете
Sep. 9th, 2006 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
paserbyp"From Russia, with luck" by Winn Schwartau (security consultant & expert):"...In Moscow, I walked into the airport Hilton hotel that was undergoing a minor remodeling of the lobby. They told me, "Sorry, nyet Internet, we are doing a major remodel." I had to hop a cab to the nearest motel-anything with Internet access.
You can buy Internet access, sometimes for $38 a day, once you hand over your passport. At the club next to my hotel, they charged too much for beer, but I got free wireless. I poked around My Network Neighborhood: no security, no MAC filtering, no crypto - but tons of connections to the networks in the office building above the club. The wireless router was hanging on a sub-network of a car dealership, which was piggybacked on the backbone of the office complex, the bank and a casino. No passwords. I am not familiar with the local Russian laws on computer trespassing, but I had learned enough. The concept of glasnost clearly has been extended to cyberspace.
At the security conference I was attending, I asked someone if there was an identity theft problem in Russia. "Oh, yes, very serious," he said.
When I asked what they do about it, he shrugged. "What's to do? Anyone can buy anything, anyway. Why should I care?" Information - private, corporate and state - is an openly traded commodity. When he told me he worked at a bank, I asked whether he had ever sold private customer data. "Of course," he replied. "I have to pay the rent."
And so it went, person after person. Not the executives, but at the worker echelon of the banking industry, it was definitely a "me first, me second and me third" attitude. The thinking is, if someone wants it, they're going to get it anyway, so why waste time and money trying to protect it? ..."
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2006/090406schwartau.html
You can buy Internet access, sometimes for $38 a day, once you hand over your passport. At the club next to my hotel, they charged too much for beer, but I got free wireless. I poked around My Network Neighborhood: no security, no MAC filtering, no crypto - but tons of connections to the networks in the office building above the club. The wireless router was hanging on a sub-network of a car dealership, which was piggybacked on the backbone of the office complex, the bank and a casino. No passwords. I am not familiar with the local Russian laws on computer trespassing, but I had learned enough. The concept of glasnost clearly has been extended to cyberspace.
At the security conference I was attending, I asked someone if there was an identity theft problem in Russia. "Oh, yes, very serious," he said.
When I asked what they do about it, he shrugged. "What's to do? Anyone can buy anything, anyway. Why should I care?" Information - private, corporate and state - is an openly traded commodity. When he told me he worked at a bank, I asked whether he had ever sold private customer data. "Of course," he replied. "I have to pay the rent."
And so it went, person after person. Not the executives, but at the worker echelon of the banking industry, it was definitely a "me first, me second and me third" attitude. The thinking is, if someone wants it, they're going to get it anyway, so why waste time and money trying to protect it? ..."
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2006/090406schwartau.html
