Let me be, apparently, the first to extend congratulations to long time NANOGer, Columbia CS professor, security researcher, and co-inventor of Usenet -- does anybody remember Usenet? :-) -- Steven M. Bellovin, who, it was announced yesterday, has become the first actual, y'know, technical person appointed to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the White House organization formed over a decade ago to oversee the NSA in light of its bulk data collection activities WRT US citizens. A Wired piece, with Steve's new resume photo, is here: http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-presidents-nsa-advisory-board-finally-gets-... and Steve's altogether excellent blog, which I read way too infrequently, is here: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/control/ Steve always has interesting stuff to say; it's nice to know that now... well, there's no way I can phrase this compliment without being accidentally insulting. So I'll shut up now. :-) == Steve's latest book is the second edition of _Firewalls And Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker_; more info including links to buy are here: http://www.wilyhacker.com/ For poor but smart people, note that there's a link there to the full text of the first edition; while much of it has been overrun by events, there's still a lot of good material there. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274