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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: potential hazards of Protect-America act
I think the threats, risks and recommendations in the paper apply regardless of the country or local ordinances. If you eliminate all the parts of the paper discussing the Protect America Act, it doesn't change the technical parts of the paper very much. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/01/27/ST2008012702568.html> Keeping public networks secure is an interesting problem for every network operator world-wide. By its nature, no public network can really be highly secure. If your vendor claims it is, grab your wallet and run. Its probably a waste of resources to attempt to build the network to protect the user against everything or even a lot of threats. Yet the public network relies on user trust in its operation. I think it would be interesting to watch a debate between a intelligence tech and a repair tech about whose tools need to be more robust and reliable. I suspect they would both be very vocal about their needs. The public network handled the Y2K rollover, you can't say the same thing about some of the intelligence systems :-) So if you are a network operator, what can you do technically (since this is not a law list)? I think the paper suffers a bit from "CSI" or "24" dazzle, everyone expects a DNA printout in the last 2 minutes of the show will find the bad guy, Intelligence Support tradeshows are filled with overpriced pieces of gear. Its usually the simple stuff that gets you. Most networks are filled with so many diagnostic features, buying a second set of gear is usually for administrative not functional reasons.
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