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Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Tue Jun 24 10:30:43 2003


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:

>
> > > Security is a lifestyle.
> >
> > People laugh when I say this, do they laugh when you say it?
>
> you have to turn it around, "insecurity is a lifestyle", before people
> will skip the polite (because they think you're joking and it isn't
> funny) or nervous (because they think you're paranoid) laughter.

I'll attempt this in the future :) Though normally I ascribe the laughter
to my height... not my paranoia :)

>
> lately i've been thinking about trust and privacy and confidence, and
> it's really icky how the more digital communications tools we get the
> less right to control our information experience we have.  e-mail is
> among several things which hasn't further liberated any individuals but
> which quite a few large companies consider a great boon -- precisely
> because they can shift costs down into the noise level and stop
> considering the desireability or usefulness of their outbound messaging.
> but it's not just e-mail, it's on my phone and on my fax machine and
> on my SMS PDA and oh what a mess.
>
> trustlessness is a lifestyle.
> --
> Paul Vixie
>




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