[52193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Thu Sep 19 18:39:48 2002
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209191724340.362-100000@vapour.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:39:00 +0200
To: batz <batsy@vapour.net>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 6:03 PM -0400 2002/09/19, batz wrote:
> Well, I think the consensus was just handed to you in the form of a national
> mandate. In fact, I think this looks like an excellent premise for
> a business plan for a security consulting and managed services firm.
Can you say "Counterpane Systems"? I knew you could.
Thing is, if this does turn out to be a big win for them, I
figure they'll actually do what is right and not what the government
says.
Maybe that's why they probably won't be the real "winners" out of this.
Anyone want to make any guesses as to who's going to be the
Microsoft of US Government-mandated computer security? Hmmm....
Maybe Microsoft? Why not? They bought the government to begin with
and the top computer security guy in the administration used to work
for them, so it only makes sense that they would reap the windfall.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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