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Re: NSP-SEC

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Fri Mar 19 09:55:35 2010

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:54:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: nenolod@systeminplace.net, jtk@cymru.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Total transparency in security matters works about as well as it would for law enforcement: fine for tactical concerns, but not so great for long-term strategic concerns.

-David Barak

On Fri Mar 19th, 2010 9:44 AM EDT William Pitcock wrote:

>On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 08:31 -0500, John Kristoff wrote:
>> An ongoing area of work is to build better closed,
>> trusted communities without leaks. 
>
>Have you ever considered that public transparency might not be a bad
>thing?  This seems to be the plight of many security people, that they
>have to be 100% secretive in everything they do, which is total
>bullshit.
>
>Just saying.
>
>William
>
>



      


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