Re: complaints about the governemnt spying!

[Leif Ericksen <leife () dls net>]

to sum it all up...
1 giant catch 22.
You are damned if you do and you are damned if you do not.


--l

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:35 -0500, bkfsec wrote:
> Leif Ericksen wrote:
>
> > It comes back to ignorance of the law is no excuse.
> >
> >  
> Ahh, but there's a BIG difference between willful or unwillful ignorance 
> and intentional ignorance.
>
> It's one thing to not know a law that you should know; it's a completely 
> different thing to be blocked from knowing the law and expected to 
> respect it.
>
> For instance, in securing networks, corporate security personnel in the 
> United States should be familiar with Sarbanes-Oxley and the like, at 
> least in passing.  Compliance is expected because compliance can be 
> tested.  Not being aware of the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley is not an 
> excuse because the law is readily available and transparent.  However, 
> if the government passed Sarbanes-Oxley and then turned around and said 
> "But for security reasons, the requirements are classified and even the 
> judges can't see them without clearance..." that would be different.
>
> How can you guarantee compliance with a behavior when you don't have 
> access to the standard?
>
> This is no different than any other standard of behavior.  If people are 
> not allowed to know the laws, they have no way to verify their 
> complicity with them.   I respectfully submit that the situations are 
> different in their entirety and that in the case of a classified law, 
> ignorance is intentionally created as a function of the creation of the law.
>
> Such things cannot simply be written off.
>
>                   -bkfsec
-- 
Leif Ericksen <leife () dls net>

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