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Re: New "Cybercrime.gov" site: Useful information or propaganda?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Scannell)
Tue Mar 14 16:49:51 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:33:18 -0800
From: Bill Scannell <bill@scannell.org>
To: cryptography@c2.net
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on 14.3.00 11:09, Perry E. Metzger at perry@piermont.com wrote:
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>> From Dave Farber's Interesting People list...
>
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> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:03:10 -0500
> Subject: IP: New "Cybercrime.gov" site: Useful information or propaganda?
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>> From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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>> Today, I scanned the US Government's newly-created "www.cybercrime.gov"
>> Web site, unveiled this week by Janet Reno. While I hoped that this
>> would be a useful resource for those seeking to learn about the issues
>> and get help with computer crime, I found to my disappointment that the
>> majority of the material posted there is political rather than
>> technical and does not provide balanced views of the issues.
Not all government agendas are controlled by idiots. For a refreshing look
at that way the Germans are approaching the issue, check out
http://www.bsi.de/gshb/english/menue.htm
The Federal Agency for IT Security has put an exhaustive, completely
baseline protection handbook on-line at the above url.
Cheers,
Bill
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