Computer Systems Fail to be Secure

 “There is little question that contemporary commercially available systems do not provide an adequate defense against malicious threat.  Most of these systems are known to have serious design and implementation flaws that can be exploited by individuals with programming access to the system….  The security threat is the demonstrated inability of most contemporary computer systems to provide a sufficiently strong technical defense against a malicious user who is deliberately attempting to penetrate the system for hostile purposes.”  Computer Security Technology Planning Study,  James P. Anderson October 1972

Any wonder our networks are worse than our computer systems used to be.  We have many to blame for this but start with the service providers and work out.  These networks have yet to stop telephone and email scammers and even Congress cannot mandate it, though they try.