[60847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Sean Gorman's maps show the cascading vulnerability in Ohio?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wouters)
Mon Aug 18 10:25:38 2003
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:24:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>
To: Scott McGrath <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0308180933420.7970-100000@noc1.fas.harvard.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Scott McGrath wrote:
> Remember when you go to a library to study rare manuscripts you generally
> need to prove to the curator that you have a legitimate scholarly interest
> in the documents not simply random curiousity.
That's because those old manuscripts are fragile, not because they think
the information should stay secret.
If you want to live in a world where this type of information needs to
be hidden, go ahead and finish your totalitarian state. The US isn't far
off anyway.
Paul
