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Re: Should IETF do more to fight computer crime?

2000-05-23 03:00:02
At 03:13 AM 5/23/00 +0200, Jacob Palme wrote:
That would mean that every time you execute any program, you would
have to get an analysis of its possible harmful effects and decide
whether to accept it. [...]

Bruce Schneier's recent Crypto-gram (15 May) newsletter (see http://www.counterpane.com/) contains an essay making the point (among others) that computer systems security is precisely about risk management, which means, among other things, making decisions about acceptable levels of risk.

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Graham Klyne
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