[113148] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wow, just when you though big government was someone else's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Apr 4 06:48:28 2009
In-Reply-To: <8ADD0F29-F0D6-4346-93E5-45656FD6B928@jsyoung.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 16:16:24 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Young <young@jsyoung.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jeff Young <young@jsyoung.net> wrote:
> This comes from Lauren Weinstein's list and it's worth a read.
> It's a bill introduced into legislation, who knows where and when
> and if it will become law but, wow.
>
> http://lauren.vortex.com/Cyber-S-2009.pdf
Relying on Lauren to hear about cybersecurity related news is like
relying on Fox News for an accurate picture of what Obama is doing.
Ignore.
> I'll just give you a teaser:
>
> SEC. 9. SECURE DOMAIN NAME ADDRESSING SYSTEM.
There's more than enough government supported work going on that
promotes DNSSEC, in case you're not aware?
> Other pearls of wisdom: =C2=A0the government will license all "cyber" sec=
urity
> folks and you don't work on government or "any network deemed by
> the president to be critical infrastructure" without one.
Do you by any chance get to go work on sensitive government networks
without, say, a security clearance?
--srs
