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RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist J. Clark)
Thu Sep 5 18:42:39 2002

Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:42:06 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


"Daniel Golding" <dgolding@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The crux of the issue are FOIA requests. The government won't make these
> types of vulnerability reports immmune to FOIA requests - thus a foreign
> terrorist or home-grown "farmbelt fuhrer" could simply order up a list of
> the most vulnerable sites, and select some to attack.

They already are exempt from FOIA requests. Namely, EXEMPTION 4,
"Trade Secrets, Commercial or Financial Information" or possibly
EXEMPTION 7(F) "Physical Safety to Protect a wide Range of
Individuals."

IANAL.
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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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