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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Learn from history?

Valdis.Kletnieksvt.edu
Date: Wed May 05 2004 - 12:59:26 CDT


On Wed, 05 May 2004 04:55:12 EDT, Lennart Damm <lennart.dammexcite.com> said:

> It would be interesting to draw security conclusions from past vulnerabilities and accompanying solutions (patches, etc.).

Here's a classic paper (the original Multics vulnerability analysis by Karger and Schell):

http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics-orig.pdf

Here's their 30-years-later retrospective:

http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf

Executive summary: We've learned somewhere between diddly and squat from
30 years of experience.

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