RE: application for an employment

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

>       But I'm no less of the opinion that the laws governing 
> these aspects of cyber-security are biased in favor of large 
> entities with elaborate online presences, and those people 
> (including professionals in the electronic security industry) 
> who serve them.

  Property laws tend to favor those who own property.  That 
shouldn't surprise anyone.

>       Mr Medved's attitude was basically, "So what?" His 
> standard was that this woman had to demonstrate ironclad 
> evidence of inevitable serious harm resulting from this kind 
> of surveilance before he would regard her as anything other 
> than a paranoid, hysterical Kook.

  How is this different from the classic fascist "Those who
have done nothing wrong have nothing to fear from the secret 
police" argument.  Which, I think, has been thoroughly debunked
multiple times.

> Further, I believe that it's easy to demonstrate that beyond 
> being strongly biased towards the short-term interests of 
> large organizations that hire electronic security 
> professionals, our present laws and cultural attidudes 
> actually harm the individual user of the internet and society 
> in general, because they basically promote the continuance of 
> an atmosphere in which security weaknesses are allowed to 
> continue to exist.

  I tend to a different view, that any problems that cannot be
fixed essentially for free will only be fixed if they have 
consequences for those who own and are responsible for them.  
A legal framework that recognizes ownership seems, to me, a 
necessary prerequisite for enforcing responsibility.

David Gillett



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