[1054] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: NYT Article and Physical Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Neal)
Tue Oct 17 06:19:03 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 08:28:57 +0100 (MET)
From: Phil Neal <neal@oecd.org>
To: zurko <zurko@osf.org>
cc: smith <smith@sctc.com>, www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
zurko <zurko@osf.org>
In-Reply-To: <9510161830.AA26529@link.osf.org>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, zurko wrote:
> of actions taken or refused). And that's not something we've talked
> much about in WWW circles yet. Government and financial institutions
> adopt two-person control authorization policies to double the number
> of people that need to be subverted (or make it more difficult for one
> person to figure out how to circumvent the control).
In the O'Reilley pgp book it is mentioned that the NSA always travels
in pairs.
>
> The government also puts a lot of money into vetting employees above
> unclassified. It's not the kind of investment most companies want to
> make. And, the truth of the matter is, trusting people less tends to
> make them less trustworthy. It takes a special kind of person to work
> in a military environment.
What's so special about being an asshole.
Phil
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