[146922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Water Utility SCADA 'Attack': The, um, washout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Nov 28 05:56:14 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <83C94D35-F418-4C23-BDDB-0114AFA0C1D6@arbor.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:52:55 -0800
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Cc: NANOG Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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> On Nov 28, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>> Making it harder to spread misinformation and FUD is good.
>> Making it harder to share information is bad.
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> Unfortunately, it's often quite difficult to distinguish between the =
two when formulating policies, regulations, legislation, and so forth.
That might be because FUD is usually the main ingredient in policies, =
regulations, legislation, etc. for the last 2 decades at least.
Politicians seem to be addicted to FUD like a baby born on crystal meth.
At least in the US.
Owen
