John Wilkie

Surrey

Director

I reckon most of us the IT Industry is aware of the limitations of the Internet but also the advantages of the same. And we all know how easy it is to add 'backdoors' to application products during development for ease of testing - and then never removed prior to the product going into production! I can well remember a well known operating system having a disk name entered in a specific fashion and this gave complete control of the disk. Great for testing but .....

But life is a lottery and IT and the Internet is just part of life. If you take care of your environment then the risk is quantified.

On the authors biblio, he mentions that he has provided evidence for trials. But, from his own submission, how can he be 100% sure that the evidence he is submitting is accurate if it has been gathered from the Internet. Can he be sure that emails delivered have not been 'intercepted' and 'doctored' with an ISP? Can he be sure that log files are a proper record of events or a copy of a log file? OK, I know there are means and ways to track the footprints but this does take and effort and, in many cases, access to an ISPs log environment. But an ISP could be in and out of 'business' before an issue is uncovered.

We will never remove all of the problems but can, individually, add our own self checking rules every time we use the Internet.