[82355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: London incidents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Wed Jul 13 00:20:00 2005
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:19:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050712165642.4319.qmail@web31909.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> --- "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
> >
> > No, it's damned if you take stupid action, damned if you do not do
> > something you should.
> >
> > People in charge of our security should not be allowed to take
> > whatever action comes to mind in the name of security.
>
> Then who should, and with data from who's mind? I suppose they (the
> ones in charge) could spend their time polling the audience, but that
> has it's price and uncertainty too.
Indeed it does, but I have to question whether the cellphone decision was
well-thought-out. I really can't believe it was.
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