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Re: WYTM - "but what if it was true?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Farrell)
Mon Jun 27 15:40:11 2005
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From: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@pfarrell.com>
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To: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Cc: Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>, dan@geer.org,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:32:33 -0400
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 10:19 -0400, John Denker wrote:
> Even more compelling is:
> -- obtain laptop hardware from a trusted source
> -- obtain software from a trusted source
> -- throw the entire laptop into a GSA-approved safe when
> not being used.
This is just a minor variation of an approach I heard from
Carl Ellison a decade or more ago:
"the only secure computer is turned off, unplugged,
inside a SCIF and surrounded by US Marines."
[a SCIF is a Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility,
used by the US Government folks]
I think we tend to accept a bit more gray
in the security versus usefullness grayscale.
Pat
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