Today is L0pht Day. In 1998 7 hackers in suits told the US Senate the internet was a house of cards. We said we could take it down in 30 minutes. They looked at us like we'd landed from another planet.
28 yrs later, the gap between what the security community knows and what decision-makers act on remains a fundamental problem.
Miss you, Peter Neumann. He testified that day too, with decades of hard-earned wisdom. We owe him.
The work isn't done. It never was.
