What Will It Take?

2023-02-14 12:06

In 2015, Chinese military hackers hacked the Office of Personal Management and made off with the highly personal information of about 22 million Americans who had security clearances.

We need to demonstrate that it's possible to build systems that can defend themselves against hackers, criminals, and national intelligence agencies; secure Internet-of-Things systems; and systems that can reestablish security after a breach.

We have older secure systems-anyone still remember Apollo's DomainOS and MULTICS?-that lost out in a market that didn't reward security.

We have newer research ideas and products that aren't successful because the market still doesn't reward security.

We have even newer research ideas that won't be deployed, again, because the market still prefers convenience over security.

While any successful demonstration will include many of the security technologies we know and wish would see wider use, it's much more than that.

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