[50618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: If you have nothing to hide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Tue Aug 6 02:55:09 2002
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 02:30:20 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: Nanog Mailing List <nanog@merit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <3D4E4D41.B894C8BD@wretched.demon.co.uk>; from Simon Waters on Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:02:41AM +0100
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:02:41AM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> > From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
> > "Why is it that companies have sold products that they know are
> > insecure?" asked Richard Clarke, President Bush's chief cybersecurity
> > adviser.
Perhaps he should ask his Vice-chairman on the CIP board, Howard Schmidt.
Mr. Schmidt was apparently the Chief Security Officer at Microsoft during
the recent few years.
> I would have though he might better concern himself with why is
> the Government still buying them.
>
> Market forces will ensure the supply of whatever is demanded,
> the US federal and state government is presumably the single
> largest purchaser in the IT market, yet still seems to be buying
> plenty of products with dubious security records.
>
> Government purchasing changes have and could improve security,
> where do you think Ctrl-Alt-Delete to login to NT came from, it
> wasn't the Microsoft usuability department I'm sure.
See above.
> Let him who is without sin.....
