[49336] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Jun 28 22:36:48 2002
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:34:50 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <Pine.GSO.4.40.0206282129130.7026-100000@clifden.donelan.com>, Sean
Donelan writes:
>
>
>Despite what security people say, if you are going to use e-mail, the web
>or IM, the question is how can you do it safely? Heck, I read a recent
>article how even the US military is starting to use a version of IM for
>its battlefield coordination of activity.
>
While "just say no" sometimes applies, competent security understand
the concept of "business need". You're absolutely right about this:
> So instead of just saying no, how about coming up with same ways to
> solve the how to do it securely.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)
