[10031] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: If Orson Welles were only alive...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Sat Feb 5 01:56:11 1994
From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 00:55:43 -0600
In-Reply-To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger), bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Karl,
I find the CERT has been VERY helpful to us in the Texas Medical Center.
During the incident at Rice, we were hit as well and they were very helpful
to us in tracking the problems at other sites and distributing information
to the affected sites.
If you believe otherwise, you must have been lucky enough to avoid the type
on incidents they have been describing. In our environment, some machines
are more secure than others. Some of this has to due with the quality of
the computer operating systems, some have to do with the wide variety of
in quality of system administrator and some have to do with the friction
between the tradition of the open Internet and the need for data security
in the industrial world. Some organizations (like ours) have a multitude
of different priorities and shape the level of security in the environment.
Some of our systems are VERY secure. Others have bad security. This is not
unusual in a academic setting. You run a business and with that you can
leverage a more uniform policy and culture. That's just the nature of things.
I believe CERT has significantly added to the overall security of the
Internet. If you believe otherwise, then consider what might be true if
there were no CERT.
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Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Executive Director, Technology
Olan uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob Architecture & Planning
Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine
