April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
9h 43m
English

Hand over your credit card and social security numbers—now!
Let’s imagine that I worked for NASA (spaceships are cool). I would get a key card and a nametag that I could show off to other people and use as bragging rights. Additionally, the keycard and nametag would tell everybody how important I was within NASA. This might work for me and against me, in that I’d be authenticated to enter the building, but not authorized to enter every room. This is essentially the same way in which the internet works. As businesses implement networked information strategies that call for controlling access ...