Re: Security Industry Under Scrutiny #4

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, hellNbak wrote:


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> The problem is, that we don't have a law enforcement for the Internet.
> Well, at least not a competant one.  So, people are forced to arm
> themselves (protect themselves) or be victimized.  To make the problem
> even worse is that we have politicians who don't understand the first
> thing about technology trying to make policy and laws that just don't make
> sense.  Combine that with the FUD over cyber-terrorism and things will get
> much worse before they get better.

And combine it all with an amero-centric focus and you piss off the rest
of the connected world.  The fact that the 'internet' is not an american
property for american legal/governmental controls hinders this
internet-policing idea to the utmost.  Standards and such are the way to
get things into a workable mode accross all the borders in question.  Then
again, perhaps the proposal here is for a cyber version of the UN?

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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