Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org> wrote:
> While there's a whole political aspect of electing people who pass
> better laws, NANOG is not a political action forum. However many
> of the people on NANOG are in positions to affect positive change
> at their respective employers.
>
> - Implement HTTPS for all services.
> - Implement PGP for e-mail.
> - Implement S/MIME for e-mail.
> - Build cloud services that encrypt on the client machine, using a key that is only kept on the client machine.
> - Create better UI frameworks for managing keys and identities.
> - Align data retention policies with the law.
> - Scrutinize and reject defective government legal requests.
> - When allowed by law, charge law enforcement for access to data.

+1

Very few of you work in jobs where the external requirements are so
well and rigidly defined that you lack the leeway to include these
sorts of efforts. You may not control the feature list but you control
the components which compose the features tasked to you. Write it in
to the things you do and give the next guy an opportunity to follow
your lead.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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