On 05/15/2002 08:03 PM, did Arvind write (doodah! doodah!):
> thank you for that bit of advice. but i guess security policies are
> something very personal to a company.
> will pentagon trust all its employees?
Don't even get me started on government in the first place and The
Pentagon in the second...
We frequently forget that the sole rationale for the existence of a
government is to supposedly help people. And it is the right of us
people to demand what we want of the government. The government,
precisely because we put it there and give it its power, cannot assume
powers over us and say that they can't tell us about what they do.
Democracy 101, dear Arvind.
> i am sure, they still would be having lots of restrictions. so, lets not
> question the policy of a company.
Blindly not questiong something is very dangerous.
> we have to do the job in hand, and thats
> what earns out bread.
> correct me if i am wrong.
This was precisely the defence of all the people tried for war crimes at
Nuremberg after World War II [1].
> as far as floppies are concerned. the terminals dont have a floppy drive.
How much of an effort is it to open a PC and install a floppy drive? Or
does your employer weld shut all PCs? How about USB floppy/CD-R drives?
Or PCMCIA floppy/CD-R drives? Or Zip drives attachable to Parallel
ports? The list is endless.
> and the files that we are trying to keep secure, are big ones, not a few
> pages long. so the printer will also not be helpful.
Have you thought of just encrypting the file to be kept secure as
opposed to blocking all ways of communicating? Doesn't take a lot of
effort. When you have valuables, it makes sense to lock them away in a
safe box as opposed to painting all windows black to prevent people from
looking inside. Or out.
> if the person is a genius in memorising all that, then so be it. my firewall
> cannot block that ;-)
My point in this whole exercise is to illustrate that there is the Right
Solution and there is the Knee Jerk Solution.
> i was just requesting a solution man.
And I gave you a potential solution, even though I would refuse to
implement it to for any employer.
Thaths
[1] Notice how careful I have been in avoiding naming names and
sidestepping Godwin's Law.
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