RE: [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Bush's administration new network

["Steve McAlexander" <mcalexander@veriomail.com>]

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Our friends (?) in Gov't  can't  control security on the internet today with
the NIPC (National Infrastructure Protection Center) and even with the FBI.
What makes them believe or think that another isolated, insulated network
will make them successful at securing it?  The Gov't has no track record of
being able to secure anything they control as there hasn't been any network
that has ever been hack proof ever!

Perhaps, it is because they are either ignorant about what constitutes
network security engineering or very clever knowing that this new network
will only secure information from its  citizens and not about countering any
hacking threat at all.

Fortunately, for all of the rest of us living here in the "land of the free
and the brave" Authoritarianism here is more of a benevolent dictatorship
that  isn't very smart though well funded and well intentioned will fail.



Steve McAlexander
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From: nettime-bold-admin@nettime.org [mailto:nettime-bold-admin@nettime.org]
On Behalf Of Fred Baube
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 06:02
To: Ana Viseu
Cc: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
Subject: [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Bush's administration new network

Thusly spake Ana Viseu:
> [The Bush administration wants to create a new network that runs parallel
> to the internet but has no links to it. This new network would be called
> 'Govnet' and critical information to the govt. would be communicated
> thorough it. It seems like Bush's administration is not really aware of
the
> fact that no network is secure, no matter how many 'locks' you put in
place
> because there is always going to be an element you cannot totally control:
> people. Best. Ana]

I don't (yet) see how this is any different from what the Pentagon did.
Years ago they decreed that military/DoD traffic would be taken off the
net (which was after all originally _their_ net, but they got the hell off
when they saw what it was mutating into).  They did it, and now it's done.
I wonder if it _has_ cut down on problems (like viruses and worms and
spammers and employees surfing for Britney pix and cheese-flavored dog
food); can anyone comment ?


best,

fred baube

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