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Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:11:11 -0400
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:46:19 -0400 (EDT) Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Jeff Young wrote:The more troubling parts of this bill had to do with the President, at his discretion, classifying parts of public networks as "critical infrastructure" and so on.Whatever your opinion, get involved. Let your representatives know about your better ideas.
I strongly second this. To quote a bumper sticker/slogan I've seen, "if you didn't vote, you shouldn't complain". Some prominent politicians have proposed something that we -- including me -- believe to be a bad idea, not just on ideological grounds but because we think that it won't accomplish its purported goals and may even be counterproductive. I don't see a lot of network operators in Congress -- if you know better, you really need to tell them. Some folks on this list -- and I know there are a few, very specifically including myself -- spend more than a little bit of time not just worrying about public policy issues, but actually spending time and effort on the subject. (I'm in D.C. right now, largely because of a policy-related meeting on Tuesday.) I'll misuses a security slogan I've seen on mass transit facilities in the New York area: if you see something, say something. If no one tells Congress that this is a bad idea, how should they know?
currently living overseas and finding all of this very amusing...If any other country has solved the problem of protecting Internet/data/cyber/critical/etc infrastructures and have some great ideas, it would be great to hear what those ideas are and how they did it.
Indeed. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Current thread:
- Ready to get your federal computer license? Hiers, David (Aug 28)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Peter Beckman (Aug 28)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Scott Morris (Aug 28)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Stefan (Aug 28)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Florian Weimer (Aug 29)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Scott Morris (Aug 29)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Chris Grundemann (Aug 29)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? cmaurand (Aug 29)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Jeff Young (Aug 29)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Sean Donelan (Aug 30)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 30)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Randy Bush (Aug 30)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Eric Brunner-Williams (Aug 30)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 30)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Chris Grundemann (Aug 31)
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- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Michael Airhart (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Scott Morris (Aug 28)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Peter Beckman (Aug 28)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Eric Brunner-Williams (Aug 30)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Justin Shore (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Reese (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 31)