Security quotes of the week

Because much like the Internet has been hamstrung at birth by the parasitic growth of the advertising industry, the information security community has been devastated for almost its entire existence by the dominance of anti-virus companies and products which demonstrably haven't worked for almost their entire reign, and in theory never could have scaled. They are broken by design. And because they sucked all the money and research and people from the defensive community, no actual defenses were ever created for IT that had a hope of working.

So the only question any team of government executives working on defense needs to be thinking about is "How is this different from Anti-Virus in the long term? How can we avoid making that mistake ever again?" Because until you know how that mistake was made, and can avoid it for the next generation, "Emerging and Evolving" threats will always be beyond your power to stop.

The device is really just a tiny router the size of an old Apple Airport Express that's had its firmware customized to sniff out and block devices based on their MAC addresses. It's created by Julian Oliver, an artist living in Berlin who originally came up with a bit of code called Glasshole.sh that was designed to kick Google Glass devices from your Wi-Fi network. Apparently the idea was such a hit that Olvier decided to make a complete consumer product based on the same premise.