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Re: Agenda, security, and monitoring

2014-02-03 16:22:03
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Ted Lemon 
<ted(_dot_)lemon(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com> wrote:

On Feb 3, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker 
<hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
But there is considerable money available to make them secure.

Sure, but as long as there is no regulatory pressure to do so and the
end-user has to pay for the occasional slip-up, nothing will change.
During that period, the opportunity exists to improve the state of the art
in email security.   Should we succeed before the first really big bank
security disaster, it is possible that our solution will appear expedient



You mean before the London Whale loses $2 billion in rogue trading
losses...

I am just waiting for one of these mega trading losses due to fraud to
cause the likes of a Citi to go under.

At least Alexander had the decency to (eventually) offer his resignation
after the consequences of his incompetence became apparent. The city types
give themselves bonuses. Large ones.

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