[funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-01 Thread Paul Ferguson
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The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research and
strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-drivers
- -license-web-users/

Enjoy!

- - ferg

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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-01 Thread Larry Seltzer
>>"A cyber war would be worse than a tsunami -- a catastrophe..."

Wow, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed (re: Wikipedia) almost
230,000 people. How many millions would die in a cyberwar?

I see potential for sarcastic science fiction in this

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_selt...@ziffdavis.com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/


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The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research and
strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-driv
ers
- -license-web-users/

Enjoy!

- - ferg

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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-01 Thread Daniel Otis
I believe a Star Trek TOS episode covered cyberwar.  We would simply 
have to have all the calculated "victims" enter disintegration chambers.

On 2/1/2010 6:29 PM, Larry Seltzer wrote:
>>> "A cyber war would be worse than a tsunami -- a catastrophe..."
>>>
> Wow, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed (re: Wikipedia) almost
> 230,000 people. How many millions would die in a cyberwar?
>
> I see potential for sarcastic science fiction in this
>
> Larry Seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry_selt...@ziffdavis.com
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 7:50 PM
> To: funsec
> Subject: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'
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> The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research and
> strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:
>
> http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-driv
> ers
> - -license-web-users/
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> Enjoy!
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> - - ferg
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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-01 Thread Benjamin Brown
/me thinks of ghost in the shell

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> >>"A cyber war would be worse than a tsunami -- a catastrophe..."
>
> Wow, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed (re: Wikipedia) almost
> 230,000 people. How many millions would die in a cyberwar?
>
> I see potential for sarcastic science fiction in this
>
> Larry Seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry_selt...@ziffdavis.com
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
>
>
>
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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-01 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
Date sent:  Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:49:48 -0800
From:   Paul Ferguson 

> http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-drivers -
> -license-web-users/

Now, while the War Office has not yet ascertained what qualifications are 
indeed 
necessary to fly an ... er ... aeroplane, we must see to it that all candidates 
possess 
the necessary qualifications, should the War Office ever decide what those 
qualifications are.  

Do you understand that, Bishop?

 - Sir Hugh Cecil in `Billy Bishop Goes to War' by John Gray

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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-01 Thread der Mouse
> Wow, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed (re: Wikipedia) almost
> 230,000 people.  How many millions would die in a cyberwar?

Depends on what gets hit.  Take over the SCADA for New York City's
utilities, especially at this time of year, and you could kill a
substantial fraction of the city.  Over 230K would not surprise me.

Of course, the hard part would be keeping it doing what you want; I
don't know to what extent it would be possible to switch back to manual
control for the most essential services, and whether it could be done
fast enough.

And, of course, on whether you could reach them at all.  I don't know
how intelligently they are secured, but I'm pessimistic.  All it takes
is one slip-up, and governments have a poor track record at listening
to the people who actually know how to do that kind of thing right

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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-01 Thread phester

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Benjamin Brown wrote:

> /me thinks of ghost in the shell


http://www.xkcd.com/686/
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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-02 Thread Dave Paris
Paul Ferguson wrote:
> The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research and
> strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:
> 
> http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-drivers
> - -license-web-users/

###
Andre Kudelski, chairman of Kudelski Group, said that a new internet 
might have to be created forcing people to have two computers that 
cannot connect and pass on viruses. "One internet for secure operations 
and one internet for freedom."
###

...BWWAHAHAhahahahahaa.. ::gasp::  BWWAHAHAHahahahah.. now THAT was 
funny!  These people get *paid* to do this?!
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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:49:48 PST, Paul Ferguson said:
> The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research and
> strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:
> 
> http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-drivers-license-web-users/

Real driver's licenses only work because there aren't 140 million joy riders
on the road every day, driving around with perfectly forged licenses.
Of course, Mundie would like to gloss over his company's role in that little
detail.



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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:06:14 EST, Dave Paris said:

> Andre Kudelski, chairman of Kudelski Group, said that a new internet 
> might have to be created forcing people to have two computers that 
> cannot connect and pass on viruses. "One internet for secure operations 
> and one internet for freedom."
> ###
> 
> ...BWWAHAHAhahahahahaa.. ::gasp::  BWWAHAHAHahahahah.. now THAT was 
> funny!  These people get *paid* to do this?!

Actually, there are large segments of the US government where people *do*
have two computers on their desk.  Of course, in their world, they get to
have two separate data pipes as well.  *THAT* part ain't gonna happen anytime
soon.


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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
I'd love to see this put in place for corporations:

... He also called for a "driver's license" for internet users.
"If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say
that you are capable of driving a car, the car has to pass a
test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have insurance."

Consider the case of PayChoice, a New Jersey (US) company which
handles payroll, issues debit cards on paydays, etc. Three data
breaches in recent history, with two in one month [1]. They have
clearly demonstrated an *inability* to protect data. Its synonymous
with driving drunk on the information super highway. Folks like
PayChoice should lose their ability to use computers.

Fortunately for the rest of the computing world, PayChoice suffered
'sophisticated attacks' while others presumably suffered
unsophisticated attacks. And good news for those who had their PII
swiped: there was no indication that its been used.

[1] "PayChoice Suffers Another Data Breach"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/paychoice_suffers_another_data.html

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Paul Ferguson  wrote:
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> The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research and
> strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:
>
> http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-drivers
> - -license-web-users/
>
> Enjoy!
>
> - - ferg
>
> [SNIP]
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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-15 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
You mean, kind of like Youtube, which is a Cat-atrophy of the mind?

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kittens&search_type=&aq=1&oq
=kitte




> -Original Message-
> From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org]
> On Behalf Of Larry Seltzer
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 5:29 PM
> To: Paul Ferguson; funsec
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'
> 
> >>"A cyber war would be worse than a tsunami -- a catastrophe..."
> 
> Wow, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed (re: Wikipedia) almost
> 230,000 people. How many millions would die in a cyberwar?
> 
> I see potential for sarcastic science fiction in this
> 
> Larry Seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry_selt...@ziffdavis.com
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org]
> On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 7:50 PM
> To: funsec
> Subject: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'
> 
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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> 
> The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research
> and
> strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:
> 
> http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-
> driv
> ers
> - -license-web-users/
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> - - ferg
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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-15 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Fire Sale! Everything MUST go!!!

 

 

From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org]
On Behalf Of Benjamin Brown
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 6:11 PM
To: Larry Seltzer
Cc: funsec
Subject: Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

 

/me thinks of ghost in the shell

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Larry Seltzer 
wrote:

>>"A cyber war would be worse than a tsunami -- a catastrophe..."

Wow, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed (re: Wikipedia) almost
230,000 people. How many millions would die in a cyberwar?

I see potential for sarcastic science fiction in this

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_selt...@ziffdavis.com
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/

 

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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-15 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Well, the alternative would be for Craig and his company to pay some
attention to the quality of their software, but that would cost some
serious money.

So, much more useful for them to divert attention from the genesis of
the whole problem: their OS; and let governments clean it up, all while,
naturally, making the barrier to entry for competitors to his company
much higher.

As long as you understand that the senior execs of US Publicly traded
companies parse Milton Friedman's famous dictum to suit their personal
(lack of) morality:

The full dictum is (their referring to the shareholders): "That
responsi-bility is to conduct the business in accordance with their
desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while
con-forming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in
law and those embodied in ethical custom." Milton Friedman, New York
Times Magazine, September 13, 1970

http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman-soc-r
esp-business.html

Generally, they paraphrase that to be "maximize shareholder value",
sometimes "within the limits of the Law", by which they tend to mean
whatever you can get away with for a cost of lawsuit that is less than
the cost of doing the right thing.

You will note that Friedman had a much broader view: that they conform
to the basic rules of society " both those embodied in law and those
embodied in ethical custom."

However, you will find precious few captains of industry of the last 30
years operate on a principle more elevated than: "You'll be gone, I'll
be gone, I got mine".

Craig Mundie is just an apologist for his Uncle Fester lookalike boss:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/13/ballmer_is_fester_and_we/




> -Original Message-
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> On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
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> Subject: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'
> 
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> The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research
> and
> strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:
> 
> http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-
> drivers
> - -license-web-users/
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> - - ferg
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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-15 Thread rick wesson
If you want to subvert the "internet drivers license" meme, insist that
it is applications and hardware that should have the drivers license.

Inform that its not a people problem, but and identity problems around
applications and hardware.

Use the "drivers license" meme as it has momentum, just divert it from
people to software.

-rick


Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> Well, the alternative would be for Craig and his company to pay some
> attention to the quality of their software, but that would cost some
> serious money.
> 
> So, much more useful for them to divert attention from the genesis of
> the whole problem: their OS; and let governments clean it up, all while,
> naturally, making the barrier to entry for competitors to his company
> much higher.
> 
> As long as you understand that the senior execs of US Publicly traded
> companies parse Milton Friedman's famous dictum to suit their personal
> (lack of) morality:
> 
> The full dictum is (their referring to the shareholders): "That
> responsi-bility is to conduct the business in accordance with their
> desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while
> con-forming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in
> law and those embodied in ethical custom." Milton Friedman, New York
> Times Magazine, September 13, 1970
> 
> http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman-soc-r
> esp-business.html
> 
> Generally, they paraphrase that to be "maximize shareholder value",
> sometimes "within the limits of the Law", by which they tend to mean
> whatever you can get away with for a cost of lawsuit that is less than
> the cost of doing the right thing.
> 
> You will note that Friedman had a much broader view: that they conform
> to the basic rules of society " both those embodied in law and those
> embodied in ethical custom."
> 
> However, you will find precious few captains of industry of the last 30
> years operate on a principle more elevated than: "You'll be gone, I'll
> be gone, I got mine".
> 
> Craig Mundie is just an apologist for his Uncle Fester lookalike boss:
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/13/ballmer_is_fester_and_we/
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -Original Message-----
>> From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org]
>> On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
>> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:50 PM
>> To: funsec
>> Subject: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'
>>
> The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research
> and
> strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:
> 
> http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-
> drivers
> -license-web-users/
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> - ferg
> 
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'

2010-02-15 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Isn't that what the TPM was about? Didn't we all recognize that as a way
to make sure OSS couldn't run on hardware without paying MS or someone
in the ecosystem for signing the binary?



> -Original Message-
> From: rick wesson [mailto:r...@support-intelligence.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 8:37 PM
> To: Tomas L. Byrnes
> Cc: Paul Ferguson; funsec
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'
> 
> If you want to subvert the "internet drivers license" meme, insist
that
> it is applications and hardware that should have the drivers license.
> 
> Inform that its not a people problem, but and identity problems around
> applications and hardware.
> 
> Use the "drivers license" meme as it has momentum, just divert it from
> people to software.
> 
> -rick
> 
> 
> Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> > Well, the alternative would be for Craig and his company to pay some
> > attention to the quality of their software, but that would cost some
> > serious money.
> >
> > So, much more useful for them to divert attention from the genesis
of
> > the whole problem: their OS; and let governments clean it up, all
> while,
> > naturally, making the barrier to entry for competitors to his
company
> > much higher.
> >
> > As long as you understand that the senior execs of US Publicly
traded
> > companies parse Milton Friedman's famous dictum to suit their
> personal
> > (lack of) morality:
> >
> > The full dictum is (their referring to the shareholders): "That
> > responsi-bility is to conduct the business in accordance with their
> > desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible
> while
> > con-forming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied
in
> > law and those embodied in ethical custom." Milton Friedman, New York
> > Times Magazine, September 13, 1970
> >
> > http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman-
> soc-r
> > esp-business.html
> >
> > Generally, they paraphrase that to be "maximize shareholder value",
> > sometimes "within the limits of the Law", by which they tend to mean
> > whatever you can get away with for a cost of lawsuit that is less
> than
> > the cost of doing the right thing.
> >
> > You will note that Friedman had a much broader view: that they
> conform
> > to the basic rules of society " both those embodied in law and those
> > embodied in ethical custom."
> >
> > However, you will find precious few captains of industry of the last
> 30
> > years operate on a principle more elevated than: "You'll be gone,
> I'll
> > be gone, I got mine".
> >
> > Craig Mundie is just an apologist for his Uncle Fester lookalike
> boss:
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/13/ballmer_is_fester_and_we/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-
> boun...@linuxbox.org]
> >> On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
> >> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:50 PM
> >> To: funsec
> >> Subject: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses'
> >>
> > The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research
> > and
> > strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again:
> >
> > http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-
> > drivers
> > -license-web-users/
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > - ferg
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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