Hi, Following are two pointers to brief notes relating to computer security history: The interview of Willis Ware in the third 2011 issue of the Annals of the History of Computing mentions his work in the computer security policy area in a couple of the questions and answers. The BBN computing history book, A Culture of Innovation ( <http://walden-family.com/bbn/>http://walden-family.com/bbn/ ) mentions early work on security for computers communicating over packet-networks on pages 457 and 458 with many references to the technical literature on page 468. Best wishes, Dave At 03:42 AM 3/12/2012, John Paul Laprise wrote:
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Hi everyone,
I've started a new thread due to a newly declassified document I received in the (snail) mail yesterday. One of my FOIA requests struck paydirt as the Ford Library declassified <http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0310/nsdm338.pdf>NSDM (National Security Decision Memorandum) 338 "Further Improvements in Telecommunications Security" dated 1 September 1976. In this executive document then President Ford orders the now defunct Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP) with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Security Agency (NSA) to take action and develop further plans for protecting US telecommunications networks.
By extension, this plan resulted in significant policy changes in the US telecommunications market and ongoing cooperation between the NSA and telecommunications companies from the beginning of deregulation.
Best regards,
John Laprise, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor <http://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/>Northwestern University Qatar P.O. Box 34102 Doha, Qatar +974 4454 5037
From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Subramanian, Ramesh Prof. Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:32 AM To: members@sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] computer security history
Hi all, It is interesting to know about the CBI's on-going research on the history of computer security. I just wanted to mention a closely related topic which spans security and policy: information privacy. It would be interesting to study the history and evolution of privacy as related to information technologies. A few year ago I wrote a paper on the evolution of privacy in India, but I wanted to know if there is any similar work that's been done in this area.
Regards, -Ramesh
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D. Gabriel Ferrucci Professor of Information Systems Quinnipiac University 275 Mount Carmel Avenue Hamden, CT 06518. Email: <mailto:rameshs@quinnipiac.edu>rameshs@quinnipiac.edu Web: <http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1288.xml?Person=23345&type=5>http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1288.xml?Person=23345&type=5 & Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project Yale Law School 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511. Email: <mailto:ramesh.subramanian@yale.edu>ramesh.subramanian@yale.edu Web: <http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/9841.htm>http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/9841.htm On 3/11/2012 2:53 PM, Jeffrey Yost wrote: Jon,
Very little research has been published to date on the history of computer security. Given the lack of literature on this important topic (and quality resources to study it), the Charles Babbage Institute proposed and was funded for a three year National Science Foundation-supported study to build infrastructure for computer security history. We are just getting underway with this project and will be conducting more than 30 in-depth career-spanning oral history interviews with first generation computer security pioneers (these will be transcribed, edited, and freely available--our standard practice with CBI's oral history program). We will also be actively engaging in archival collection development efforts for computer security documentation (we already have some strong holding such as the Willis Ware Papers and the Donn Parker Papers), and will publish scholarship from this research project. An advisory committee of leading computer security pioneers is providing guidance to us on this project.
Historian and Sociologist of Science Donald McKenzie did a few important articles and book chapters--see his book Mechanizing Proof and an article (co-authored w/ G. Pottinger) on high assurance work w/in the DoD (primarily work by the Air Force and Air Force contractors that helped lead to TCSEC or the Orange Book) published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 19 (3) (1997): 41-59.
Also, I did a survey book chapter on the history of computer security standards in de Leeuw and Bergstra's book The History of Information Security a few years ago. History of cryptography has been far more thoroughly studied and has a significant secondary literature (most of the chapters in the de Leeuw and Bergstra volume are on this topic) and the NSA Cryptologic Museum sponsors a regular conference/symposium on the history of cryptography.
Cheers, Jeff On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Jon Lindsay <<mailto:jrlindsay@ucsd.edu>jrlindsay@ucsd.edu> wrote: Hello all, I have the feeling that the history of computer security, from hacking techniques to the evolution of the information security industry to fearmongering over cybersecurity, is a somewhat understudied area. I have seen some work on the development of government policy and threat framing (i.e., by Myriam Dunn Cavelty) but I'm less aware of anything on the evolution of the technical and industrial dark arts. If there is some good work out there, I would love to see it. Bonus points if you can tell me when the awful phrase "digital pearl harbor" first appeared! Cheers, Jon
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