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Re: White House net security paper

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jun 1 03:42:24 2009

Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:41:50 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <g3zlcsh76s.fsf@nsa.vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

>> As hire As.  Bs hire Cs.  Lots of Cs.
>> this problem needs neurons, not battalions.
> this problem needs round-tuits, which Good Guys are consistently short
> of, but which Bad Guys always have as many of as they can find use
> for.  a few battalions of B's and C's, if wisely deployed, could
> bridge that gap.

there is a reason Bs and Cs have spare round-tuits.

fred brooks was no fool.  os/360 taught some of us some lessons.
batallions work in the infantry, or so i am told.  this is rocket
science.

randy


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