[26331] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: After Y2K, critical infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Thu Dec 23 21:32:45 1999
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'I Am Not An Isp'" <patrick@ianai.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:29:29 -0800
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The point remains, WinNT can only comply with _any_ form of C2 _after_ the
lobotomy has been performed. Does it matter to what degree it has to be
lobotomized? A lobotomy, is a lobotomy. No "network connections", is "no
network connections", regardless of how one gets there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On
> Behalf Of I
> Am Not An Isp
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 6:03 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: After Y2K, critical infrastructure
>
>
>
> At 08:49 PM 12/23/99 -0500, Deepak Jain wrote:
> >
> >> I'm hoping the "hackers" will party and get drunk over
> New Year's, and
> leave
> >> the so-called critical infrastructure alone. If you
> think you filled out a
> >> lot of paperwork for Y2K, and you ain't seen anything
> yet. I for one sleep
> >> much better knowing Microsoft NT is certified C2 ready :-)
> >>
> >
> >Sorry to ruin your sleep. NT is ONLY C2 certified as a standalone
> >workstation. I.e. NO NETWORKING DRIVERS ENABLED.
>
> I thought you had to remove the NIC, the floppy, and a few
> other things,
> not just software. C2 *Orange* Book, not Red Book.
>
> >AiNET
>
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
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