DDoS detector
John Chambers,,,781-647-1813
jc at trillian.mit.edu
Fri Feb 11 17:00:49 EST 2000
Randall Hofland <rhofland at gis.NET> writes:
Gee guys, we just had somebody from the CIA giving us a tech talk on
security. You aren't now suggesting that we can't trust the FBI (or NSA,
SS, etc.) just because they want to run binaries (w/o source code) under
"root"? That's almost like suggesting that the reason the FBI doesn't
expect to catch the perpetrators of these attacks is because they
already know who is doing it!
Nah; they're just asking you to run software under the same
terms that most of Microsoft's satisfied customers accept
without question. If all those millions of Windoze users
are willing to trust binary-only software from anyone, why
should we all be so worried about it? Especially when the
software in question comes from the gummint elected by
those same millions?
Are people perhaps suggesting that the are people in the
FBI who might not be totally open and honest in their
dealings with us? Remember that they're likely reading and
archiving these messages ...
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