![]() ![]() People tell you to turn off cookies because they are dangerous, but you can't talk to anything on the Web without using them. The things that seem absolutely unsolvable but that we have to solve is the user interface stuff. I hate to see so much emphasis on digital rights management. If there's a trust relationship there most people will wind up buying things. But most people are basically honest, and are willing to pay if you make it convenient. The few dishonest people will always manage to steal things. In security the money is behind digital rights management, which I think ultimately is a bad thing - not that we need to preserve the right to pirate music, but because the solutions are things that don’t solve the real problems in terms of security. There was active networking for a while, which always mystified me and has now died. The taste of whoever is in the funding agencies tends to cause everyone to look at the same stuff at the same time. What's your take on the state of networking and security research these days? Though if all I did was change the world, then I assume that would be a bad thing. At Sun Labs it's nice if we do things that make the company money but it's also nice if we change the world. Or I meet two groups that ought to know each other and I introduce them. I enjoy talking to various groups in and out of Sun to find out what they're doing and often it intrigues me with some problem that needs to be solved. The job is not that well defined so I get to kind of do whatever I want. What exactly does a distinguished engineer do? What aspects of being female are important for this position?" I can't walk in heels, I have no clothing sense, and I'm not particularly decorative. Although my credentials as a thought leader are impeccable, I must warn you that I am not that qualified as a female. Recently a recruiter for a company sent me e-mail saying "We are particularly interested in you as a female thought leader." I didn't reply, because I wasn't interested in a job, but I fantasized replying: "Thank you for your interest. #I need somebody radia professional#I cringe when people emphasize my gender, because it's really a very small part of my life, especially my professional life. That’s kind of a strange marketing sound bite. What more could a networking editor ask for? One week I get to see Tim Berners-Lee, the Father of the Web, and the next week I get to meet with the Mother of the Internet. But when I met with her recently at a security event in Boston I wanted to know this: What have you done for us lately? Network World even singled her out in March as one of 20 people who changed the industry over the past 20 years. Others know her as the author of network textbooks such as Interconnections. Some people refer to Sun Labs distinguished engineer Radia Perlman as the Mother of the Internet and the creator of the spanning tree algorithm used by bridges and switches. ![]()
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