Firewalls are important, as there’s always going to be marauders out there on the Net.
Predictor: Joy, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 Information Week article regarding the future of the Internet, Bill Joy addressed the issue of security on the Net and possible solutions for the problem: ”We’re trying to get past the technical problems and ask, ‘How do we build robust, secure servers while preserving the anonymity of people in transactions and address some of the privacy issues?’ We’ve been talking to a number of people, and I hope we’ll be able to announce some deals where we’re at least part of the experiments. It’s certainly an area where a lot of different people want to decide the answer, but eventually, it’s going to have to be a cooperative thing. I also think firewalls are important, as there’s always going to be marauders out there on the Net. We wouldn’t be connected to the Net without a firewall, because our internal network is so important to our business. We don’t want every hacker in the world just wandering around our network.”
Biography:Bill Joy served as chief of technical strategy at Sun Microsystems, a position he held in the 1990s, from the founding of days of the company in 1982. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: July 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Information Week
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=b83c10508e19ffbee2b32765ce099c64&_docnum=13&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=c019c9e4607b692c5d94a18a96d58bde
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