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Re: latest Snowden docs show NSA intercepts all Google and Yahoo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Fri Nov 1 19:40:43 2013
In-Reply-To: <m21u2zk82f.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:39:12 -0700
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> > Anyone familiar with secure organizations
>
> there are such things?
>
> we should be more cautious with absolutes, usually :)
>
Nothing is absolute, but there are certainly "white" organizations which
have no attempt to be secure, and much greyer ones where it's a big deal in
organizational process and ethos.
A Snowden once a decade or so is not a bad record. Unfortunately, we ...
hoped ... they were the good guys, not the bad guys.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com