The core problem is this ... the Internet was built out to amplify communication for commercial purposes, not to be secure. Think how quickly we went from free standing PCs to a fully global Internet community. This hyper-rapid growth was in pursuit of profit at the expense of security. Now there are systems in place that deal with trillions of transactions a day in real time that would be impossible to maintain if security concerns were addressed as they should be. Add to that that we exist in an era of common platforms, for that is the only way an integrated and functioning Internet is possible. The common standards of these platforms allow easy penetration of systems by hackers. A windows environment is a windows environment. A mainframe environment is a mainframe environment. A UNIX environment is a a UNIX environment. And the network infrastructure that allows for interaction between platforms is standard as well. Any System Admin worth his salt knows how to hack the system he is responsible for in a crisis situation, and if a Sys Admin is capable of doing it a hacker is.
The time to have worried about securing the Internet was decades ago, it would be extremely costly to redesign a secure system from scratch now that wouldn't interrupt with real time commerce when implemented.
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