[88121] in North American Network Operators' Group
The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? [ & Re: cyber-redundancy ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Coluccio)
Fri Jan 20 20:17:36 2006
From: Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:17:02 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>>Trust is a very nebulous concept.<<=0D
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And mistrust is a far less nebulous concept, obviously. It seems to me that=
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will dispel just about anything I present in this regard. Do you trust bank=
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hold your escrow funds during home purchasing? How does Iron Mountain gain =
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trust of its enterprise customers who archive their IP, tapes, sofware and =
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jewels with them? The following is very interesting to me:=0D
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>There is a working group involving several carriers, =0D
>financial institutions and the government to create =0D
>something for customers with these types of requirements. =0D
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Which standards body are you referring to that has such a working group? =
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If CPA's were trusted, why aren't there big six CPA firms anymore? Who=0D
was the CPA for ENRON? If you trusted them to audit ENRON's financial=0D
books, would you also trust them to audit their route information? Why=0D
do you think CPA firms would do a better job doing at auditing ENRON's=0D
routes than they did their financial books?=0D
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Trust is a very nebulous concept.=0D
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Every industry opposes more rules and regulations. Do we really want=0D
ordering an ordinary telephone line to require as much paperwork as=0D
getting a mortgage? On the other hand, as you know, when you actually=0D
read all that paperwork, tariffs, standards, technical practices, etc;=0D
carriers don't promise very much. And they usually deliver on that=0D
promise.=0D
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Banks refuse to promise they will never be robbed, and carriers=0D
refuse to promise their circuits will never go down.=0D
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There is a working group involving several carriers, financial=0D
institutions and the government to create something for customers=0D
with these types of requirements. The challenge is for everyone=0D
is deciding what it actually means, how to implement it, and what=0D
will it cost. And even after all that, circuits will still go=0D
down.=0D
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Frank A. Coluccio=0D
DTI Consulting Inc.=0D
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