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Re: NSP-SEC


From: David Barak <thegameiam () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:54:57 -0700 (PDT)

Total transparency in security matters works about as well as it would for law enforcement: fine for tactical concerns, 
but not so great for long-term strategic concerns.

-David Barak

On Fri Mar 19th, 2010 9:44 AM EDT William Pitcock wrote:

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 08:31 -0500, John Kristoff wrote:
An ongoing area of work is to build better closed,
trusted communities without leaks. 

Have you ever considered that public transparency might not be a bad
thing?  This seems to be the plight of many security people, that they
have to be 100% secretive in everything they do, which is total
bullshit.

Just saying.

William





      


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