Face-Off: Will the future be more secure? It’ll be just as insecure as it possibly can, while still continuing to function. “Internet” hasn’t been destroyed by terrorists, organized crime, or others. Criminals and other adversaries have a distinct interest in keeping computing infrastructure working just well enough to exploit it. None of us can retire “when our work is done” We will retire when we can hand off the problem to another generation, he says. He says, “There is no secure — i.e., there is no end game””]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/09/wisdom-from-ranum.html