Jim, In response to Stephen's question, you wrote...
>> What does 'green technology' have to do with infosec? > > Data centerers worldwide use at least 3% of all global electricity. With > the growing cost of oil/power - most large corporations are looking for > ways to reduce power consumption at their data centers. Google is > building new database centers near cheap power, cheap land, and cheap > water. Sun has "bet the farm" on Green issues. IBM and Intel have > green/sustainability departments as well. > > http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Disruptive-Forces-Sun-Microsystems/ Maybe I need someone to connect the dots for me, but IMO, your response _still_ doesn't adequately answer Stephen's question. You addressed why 'green technology' is good in general and why businesses are pursuing it, but not what it has to do w/ information security. Certainly, if there is a connection here, is is not a direct one. I don't want to speak for Stephen (but will anyways ;-), but I think it's unfair to interpret his remark as implying that green technology is bad or some sort of voodoo. In the context, I think his concern was that in the past, the RSA conferences were focused on infosec, and on cryptography in particular. Apparently, based on Stephen and gem's comments, it seems to have lost its focus. I think that's all that was being implied here. -kevin --- Kevin W. Wall Qwest Information Technology, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 614.215.4788 "The reason you have people breaking into your software all over the place is because your software sucks..." -- Former White House cyber-security adviser, Richard Clarke, at eWeek Security Summit This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments. _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. _______________________________________________
