On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 18:37, <[email protected]> wrote: > Part of what is needed is the education of what our jobs are.
I don't think anyone will disagree. But again, this is an issue of education and outreach, as opposed to seeking changes in corporate or public policy. Education and outreach could indirectly affect changes to corporate or public policy, but these are not direct attempts to affect change. > This includes things like the fact that it's pretty close to impossible to > protect a system from the people who admin it, [...] True. > [...] it's also impossible for us > to do things like maintain a mail system without having the capability to > look at other people's mail. Eh....not so much. An admin certainly cannot maintain a mail system without having the capability to look at the senders, recipients and subjects of other people's mail, but enforcing use of PKI encryption would protect the actual message bodies, in theory. But this is getting off topic, and these are still educational and outreach issues. >... > In terms of public policy, watching out for things that would make admins > personally liable for actions taken from their servers would be a good > thing. OK, I think this is a good, concrete example of how to advance the professional interests of system administration. But the next question will be, "What do we do about it?" Assuming we had the resources, do we lobby for legislative change? Do we establish a fund to assist with legal expenses for defense of system administrators so accused? For this discussion (trying to stay focused on the question I offered), a concrete example is likely good enough. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
