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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Don't blame Intelligence or Security Agencies.....
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:15:23 EDT, [email protected] said: > > > The intelligence agencies in the United States are the best in the world. > > Mossad would disagree with you. > Ever wondered why no one hijacks El Al flights? I always thought it was due to two factors: 1) Proper security design at the airports that make all the obvious single-person low-tech attacks fairly unlikely to work, forcing the use of high-tech or conspiracy solutions. 2) The reluctance of anybody to be the on-the-ground part of a conspiracy or the seller of a high-tech solution, when you *know* that your continued life expectancy is very short unless you plan to spend the rest of your life hiding under a bush in one of the more inhospitable jungles of New Guinea. ObNanog: Proper security is a layered thing, and studying known working examples of layered security is always instructive... Now if everybody would just install the patches, we'd have (1) covered on the net and could start worrying about (2) ;) Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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