More than likely laws will be passed that gives the Feds the ability to fine you $100 US for not changing your passwords every 30days. IHMO this latest "White House Meeting" is another example of the government attempting to regulate something that they have no clue and no business in. Whats next a committee on minimum router config standards... I'm done
-----Original Message----- From: Wayne Bouchard [mailto:web@typo.org] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:35 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: White House Net security summit
Is security in an environment where new applications are installed on an almost daily basis something you can really regulate? In some regards, the thought of Washington getting involved here scares me.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:03:55PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
I guess if you snooze you loose. For anyone who didn't
know from MSNBC
"A group of key high-tech executives agreed at a White
House meeting earlier
today to move forward on a plan to set minimum security standards for big companies that connect to the Internet, MSNBC.com has learned. The meeting was attended by Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Boeing, the National Security Agency and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Norm Mineta."
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