Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01591
To: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: rdraycott@CPL.co.uk
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:25:01 +0000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: LANL...
The prime reason for the use of firewalls has nothing what so ever to do
with security for
any other reason than
a} money what any university can get in sposourship further to the
publication of
a paper on a given subject and the associated presteage at being the
first
b} Paranoia alas the US wins top award in the "We are the most
paranoid country
in the world " award yes thae same country that most activly promotes
the use of
All that key escrow stuff , the yes you can have secrets but we want
to read them
all country ,the same contry that bought you The bill of 'white'
rights and has been so
open about kennedy ,Watergate,
etc etc etc
perhaps if i live long enough the uncensoured roswell
file will be released. Oh and isn't it the US company Intel that
have included
chip IDs in Pentium 3s " big bro wants to watch your PC "
c} Milatary i think it was LANL that was doing some stuff with
little tracked ANTS
for "ordance removal though im sure the aspect of ordance distribution
was examined.
d} patents and copy rights the greedy corperations can pick up for
peanuts as
subject to their funding.
Im sure the ball began rolling in the , yes you guessed it the US to
patent the
sequences for human genes.
there are many other means of protecting data and system integrity
FireWalls are just the latest flavour of the month
and incidently an obvious come and get me sign that they advertise to
hackers and crackers
that says "we are a site with somthing to hide that we think is worth
somthing" the fact that many
such implementations are hamfisted and trust me VERY easily circimvented
seems to make no
diference to these types of sites who seem to openly prolipherate the fact
that "we have been
screwed out of alot of money on software and hardware to ease our
paranoia".
the truth is start piling on the protection and the dedecated professional
hackers and crackers
WILL get on the case just for the challange. So go ahead LANL just keep
your fingers crossed
that the sutle discreete crackerer make unautorised access rather than the
blundering and sometimes
distructive hackers.
RobD AKA "PowerBuilder"
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