i think, it would be better debated in person than in email. ;-) arvind ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sudhakar Chandra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [LIH]Re: restricting email
| 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. | | -- | "Homer, your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing." | -- Stephen Hawking | thaths at aunet.org Slacker At Large http://www.aunet.org/~thaths/ | Key fingerprint = 8A 84 2E 67 10 9A 64 03 24 38 B6 AB 1B 6E 8C E4 | | | | _______________________________________________________________ | | Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply | the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _______________________________________________ | linux-india-help mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
