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Re: A small editorial about recent events.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Palmer)
Fri Dec 23 15:25:29 2005
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:23:49 -0800
From: Chris Palmer <chris@eff.org>
To: dan@geer.org
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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dan@geer.org writes:
> You know, as a security person, I say all the time that the greatest
> threat is internal threat, not external threat. In my day job, I/we
> make surveillance tools to prevent data threat from materializing, and
> to quench it if it does anyhow. I tell clients all day every day that
> when the opponent can attack location independently, and likely
> without self identification, your only choice is pre-emption, which
> requires intell, which requires surveillance, which requires listening
> posts.
Are you saying we need to carefully surveil our government and pre-empt
it from attacking us, or that our government should carefully surveil us
and pre-empt us from attacking it?
> And I'm just talking about intellectual property in the Fortune 1000,
> not the freaking country.
Let's hope society as a whole never resembles life inside the Fortune
1000 too closely.
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