On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2013-11-10 14:40, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> >> So, do you recall a few months back about Snowden? Sometimes I think the >> only >> reason that didn't turn into a rather witch-hunt-y form of >> "professionalization" was that Congress had other insanity on its mind. >> > > The man was ready to jump country and get incarcerated (or worse) if > caught, to do what he believed was the right thing to do. Do you really > think that a the prospect of their professional status or license would > deter someone from acting? > Looking at exactly the part I did NOT mention, for good reason, and ignoring the important part. The point is that we could well have seen the NSA use that incident to force adoption of standards which have nothing to do with system administration and everything to do with protecting themselves, in large part because proper professional standards would almost certainly not serve that purpose. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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