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Re: White House net security paper

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jun 1 03:44:23 2009

Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:43:46 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <g3vdngh70m.fsf@nsa.vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> network security is a "loss center".  not just a cost center, a *loss* center.
> non-bankrupt ISP's whose investors will make good multiples only staff their
> *profit* centers.

this glib statement may have been true at the isps where you worked.  it
is not true for the ones where i work(ed).

randy


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