[54347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whoops! (re: WH network monitoring plan response)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Dec 24 15:33:06 2002
To: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
Cc: batz <batsy@vapour.net>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:26:09 EST."
<BA2DE6C1.1152F%rforno@infowarrior.org>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:31:55 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:26:09 EST, Richard Forno said:
> In my last post when I said this:
> > If something's deemed 'critical' to a large segment of the population, then
> > security must NEVER outweigh conveinience. Period. Non-negotiable.
> I meant to say that security must ALWAYS outweigh convienience.
>
> My goof....guess I had too much NOG and not enough NAN at the party last
> night. :)
A case could be made that you had it right the first time, in that a "large
segment" of the population cares less about security than they do about dancing
hamsters, and that they'd designate the latter as "critical". Thus the sorry
state of certain end-user software on 90% of the desktops.
Happy Holidays! ;)
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