Well said sir!
Scott C. McGrath On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > From the AOL theft article: > > "The revelations come as AOL and other Internet providers have > > ramped up their efforts to track down the purveyors of spam, which > > has grown into a maddening scourge that costs consumers and > > businesses billions of dollars a year." > > Interesting. An insider at a network operator steals > a copy of some interesting operational data and sells > it to a 3rd party with an interest in doing nasty things > with said data. > > And if Homeland Security really does require all outages > to be reported to a clearing house where only network > operations insiders can get access to it, then what? > Will someone sell this to a terrorist organization? > > Better to leave all this information semi-public as > it is now so that we all know it is NOT acceptable > to build insecure infrastructure or to leave infrastructure > in an insecure state. Fear of a terrorist attack is > a much stronger motive for doing the right thing > than a government order to file secret reports to > a secret bureaucratic agency. > > --Michael Dillon >