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Re: what are realistic threats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu)
Wed Sep 28 19:48:33 1994
From: jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu
To: hallam@dxal18.cern.ch
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 16:23:22 -0500 (EDT)
Cc: dmk@allegra.att.com, www-buyinfo@allegra.att.com,
www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9409281519.AA19356@dxal18.cern.ch> from "hallam@dxal18.cern.ch" at Sep 28, 94 04:19:11 pm
Reply-To: jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu
>
> It is not a question of the amount of money at stake, the real danger
> comes from people who do not have monetary motivation, the terrorist
> and the like.
"Avarice is the only human emotion I trust". Al Capp
The methods and goals of the thief can be fairly well predicted.
The terrorist is a wild card. I'd much rather look down the
gun barrel of a thief than one being held by a lunatic. I've
done both. I've also had a projects documentation, tapes, disk
files and data (production system) walk out the door with a disgruntled
person at midnight. Thank heaven for secret backups.
--bob
