[122349] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Feb 12 12:51:31 2010
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: swm@emanon.com
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:11:36 +0100
In-Reply-To: <4A99259E.8000202@emanon.com> (Scott Morris's message of "Sat, 29
Aug 2009 08:57:02 -0400")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, "Hiers, David" <David_Hiers@adp.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Scott Morris:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Scott Morris:
>>
>>
>>> I'm trying really hard to find my "paranoia hat", and just to relieve
>>> some boredom I read the entire bill to try to figure out where this was
>>> all coming from....
>>>
>>> "(2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or
>>> shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal
>>> Government or United States critical infrastructure information system
>>> or network;"
>>>
>>
>> Wouldn't this mean you're allowed to set emergency ACLs only if a
>> cybersecurity emergency has been declared by the President?
> I must have missed the phrasing that says "nobody else can make an
> independent decision regarding any security measure above and beyond the
> minimum standards"...
>
> I'll go back and look for that.
The thing your looking for is called "exclusio unius". 8-)
