Busting the botnet-herders

31.10.2005

CWHK: Do you foresee a time when, due to security concerns, IT administrators will return to "dumb terminals" as workstations, with locked computer rooms?

MH:No, I don't think so. Because then you'd only have to protect one machine, BUT, it would be a very crucial machine. Because if it fails, everyone stops working, immediately.

Of course, people can be forced to work with anything. But I can imagine the amount of complaints from end-users if you took their desktops away. And look at environments today-people research via the Internet and are more efficient.

Are we going back to the days of black screens and green characters? No. I don't think so.