[52910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael H. Warfield)
Wed Oct 23 09:33:32 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:31:29 -0400
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
To: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Cc: "Jamie C. Pole" <jpole@jcpa.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> At 07:50 AM 10/23/2002, Jamie C. Pole wrote:
> >It's a terrible thing when the most "competent" assessment of an attack
> >comes from a "company spokesperson", rather than someone just a little more
> >technical...
> In my reality the shop floor is not allowed to comment on something
> that is seen as vital to a corporation's interests at all. This
> in order not to destroy carefully crafted statements by the spokespeople
> vetted by the lawyerpeople. Such statements tend to be designed to
> hide the bad news and amplify whatever snippets of good news can be found.
> The *perceived* "affluence" of *comptetent* technical people has an effect on this:
> It makes the shop floor *much less* likely to talk even to peers for fear of
> their jobs.
Gee... And for some reason today's [10/23] "Helen, Sweeheart of
the Internet" <http://www.comicspage.com/helen/index.html> comic strip
seems sooo relavent to this discussion...
:->
> Daniel
Mike
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