[187667] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congrats to SMB!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Royce Williams)
Thu Feb 18 10:08:19 2016
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From: Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 06:07:28 -0900
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> Let me be, apparently, the first to extend congratulations to long time
> NANOGer, Columbia CS professor, security researcher, and co-inventor of
> Usenet -- does anybody remember Usenet? :-) -- Steven M. Bellovin, who,
> it was announced yesterday, has become the first actual, y'know, technical
> person appointed to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the
> White House organization formed over a decade ago to oversee the NSA in
> light of its bulk data collection activities WRT US citizens.
Hear, hear!
[snip]
> Steve's latest book is the second edition of _Firewalls And Internet Security:
> Repelling the Wily Hacker_; more info including links to buy are here:
>
> http://www.wilyhacker.com/
>
> For poor but smart people, note that there's a link there to the full text of the
> first edition; while much of it has been overrun by events, there's still a lot of
> good material there.
Minor correction: Steve's latest book is _Thinking Security_ (Nov
2015). Pretty great so far.
Royce
