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| DATE | 2001-10-13 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Computer Security Division Activities
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:06:00PM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:28:52 -0700
> From: John Gilmore
> To: Elaine Barker , gnu-at-toad.com
> Cc: kmscomments-at-nist.gov, cryptography-at-wasabisystems.com
> Subject: Re: Computer Security Division Activities
>
> > workshop is scheduled for November 1-2 at NIST. Registration is REQUIRED
> > because of enhanced security procedures (i.e., so that attendees can be
> > admitted to the NIST campus). Please see
> > http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/kms/workshop2-page.html for registration
> > information.
>
> What is this lunacy about registering? Does someone seriously think
> that terrorists will attack the National Institute of Standards?
> Or that if they were serious about attacking, they wouldn't just
> pre-register their real or fake ID's so they'd be allowed in?
>
> This sort of idiocy just puts a barrier between the government and
> the public it is supposedly serving. And of course does nothing to
> actually improve the actual "security". It's particularly galling
> since the meeting is supposedly among experts in computer security.
>
> Wouldn't it be much better to all go home and hide under the covers?
> That would make us feel much safer. Just like children, which is the
> way our government is treating us.
>
> I will not participate in activities that require me to "identify myself"
> to the government, or to be pre-vetted for attendance.
Mr. Gilmore has a point about the warm-fuzzy 'security' measures we're all
seeing. His points can be transposed rather well to the IBM building.
IBM isn't accountable to us, but NIST is.
We're all just being vexed and annoyed to make us feel like something
is being done about terrorism. Several businesses in Rockafeller
Center (where I work) are suffering terribly from these measures.
Some shops are inaccessible to people who do not work in the building. Others,
(like the McGraw-Hill bookstore) have a public entrance and an inside entrance,
and the inside entrances are now all locked. I'm sure these businesses are
losing tons of money due to the imposition of these measures by building
management (some have already closed), and with absolutely no gain in building
security.
- --
"The funk, the whole funk, and nothing but the funk."
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