Authors:
  • Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

    Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media
Cite this Page: Citation