[42056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Thu Sep 13 10:19:12 2001
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:02:45 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com>
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Leo Bicknell wrote:
[..]
> To keep this somewhat on topic, there is a general security parallel
> here that applies to planes, networks, millitary weapons and anything
> else you can imagine. Someone on the inside with nothing to lose
> can essentially always get past security. These people had spent
> years training to be pilots. Taking another couple of years to be
> actual employed pilots of an air carrier would probably have been
> something they were willing to do, putting them right at the
> controls. Employees behind firewalls can always copy the company
> secrets to a floppy and mail them to whoever they want.
[..]
Our "security" measures didn't work. Lets not bother with "security" at all.
