Dan, Oh how you jest. The INFOCON stuff sucks really. For the most part, it should already be secure (right?). You'd be surprised. We've enforced a lot of policies that really should have been in place prior to ...but you know how that is. Not to mention any deviation from the INFOCON requires endless amounts of paperwork.
This morning is brought to you by the Number 4 and the Letter P (as in PATCH) -- which is what I've been doing since 4am. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Sterling Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 6:35 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [OT] [TriLUG] IDE Recommendations? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anjuta was the one I was using btw -- I went home forgetting that we > disabled OWA (Outlook Web Access -- for you non Windows types). > Indeed -- how's that infocon doing? :) Raising a "threat level" when under attack or imminent attack makes sense -- if you've identified that you have a weakness of some sort that's about to be exploited, try to remove it. However, I never understood the logic behind keeping it raised for any significant period of time -- it seems to me that the longer the threat level is high, the more people become desensitized to any possible threat. For example, take an ID-Card check: right after you mandate that all cards be checked, everyone takes it seriously and everywhere you go there's somebody to check your card -- but after several days (or even one day!) of this, people just stop caring, and you are now less secure than even before the level was raised, as your perceived sense of security is now greater than your actual security. I'm certain that any decent commander knows this on some level, but the false sense of security that comes from a raised threat level seems to make people downright giddy, I believe. Identify the specific threat and work to eliminate that as soon as possible, and lower the overall threat level as soon as possible: anything else is not only a waste of time and resources, but indeed a threat itself. -- Dan -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
