Even though I have a big background in music, I don’t listen to music in the car too often. I really prefer to listen to talk radio when I am in the car. Even though today is Saturday and is the start of my Spring Break, I was up at my usual 4:30 am because I accepted the request of a friend to take her to the airport to catch an early flight. On the way home from the airport, I caught a great story on the NPR show, “On The Media.”

This story is the first in a three part series:

The Net’s Mid-Life Crisis (March 13, 2009)

The basic architecture of the Internet hasn’t changed since it was conceived 40 years ago. But what was once the playground of wonks is now the main staging area for the global economy and open to an array of security vulnerabilities. Brooke talks with Internet experts who ponder a vexing conundrum: adjustments that increase security simultaneously hamper innovation.

I won’t try to give you the exact words but the one section that really stuck out to me was when they were talking about security and the Internet. A comparison was made to the Interstate system. A person said does it make sense to say we are going to modify the Interstate system to stop criminals from committing crimes? It makes just as much sense to say we are going to modify the Internet (the global superhighway) to stop cyber-criminals. I am looking forward to the next two shows in the series and will post links to them when they come online.