[51756] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Sep 5 23:12:36 2002
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:00:14 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <GKEFKKIKGCMICPKBAEIMKEOACJAA.dgolding@yahoo.com> from "Daniel Golding" at Sep 05, 2002 01:27:46 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Daniel Golding said:
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> 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.
Suffice to say, there's another side to the story as well.
There is already a FOIA exemption, but the current Administration
is making a daily policy of denying virtually all FOIA requests.
Judges are not always that submissive; hence the push for new
legislation.
You might look at epic.org and aclu.org for other views than
than those of Clark & the Ministry of Fatherlan^H^H^H Homeland
Security.
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