Next time, why not post a link to the original article rather than post it in its entirety here? For those interested, the article seems to have originally appeard here.
Other than that I really don't know, I'm not good at this type of thing, but we all need to learn. We need some leaders to step up and lead us in fighting this fight. And we need to give them our full support, and we need to gain the support of the public.
What we need is for some of us who "get it" to run for office. That way, there will be some technically knowledgeable people actually working on the legislation before the courts need to get involved. If enough/.ers get the gumption to run, some of us will get elected.
Writing and calling are easy. Sending money is even easier. Maybe it's time we start doing the hard things. It's not that hard to get involved, but it will take a lot of effort to make it to a place where we can make a difference. Start locally, aim nationally.
(And yes, I've started following my own advice. I may not make it far, but I feel I'm doing more than just writing/calling/sending money.)
As a QA professional, I cringe at the thought of a system such as the proposed one being rolled out in ninety days. Just how much testing could such a system go through? Certainly not much in the way of load/stress testing, nor security testing. This assumes, of course, that testing time would even be built into the system. Knowing how many compromises are made in the corporate world to meet some exec's arbitrary deadline, I would not trust *my* personal data to such a system any time in the next century!
This assumes, of course, that the people who boarded those planes all used valid ID cards. As any teenager can tell you, fake IDs are fairly easy to obtain, and I doubt that those who currently provide fake drivers' licenses will have a moral problem with providing fake national ID cards.
You know, I've read a lot of stuff, both here and other places, that claims that if encryption were breakable by some governmental TLA agency, that the events of Sept. 11 could have been avoided. Um, has there been any evidence yet that the perpetrators of the terrorist acts actually used any form of encryption to plan this? So far, all I see is posturing and postulating. What did I miss?
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Next time, why not post a link to the original article rather than post it in its entirety here? For those interested, the article seems to have originally appeard here.
Other than that I really don't know, I'm not good at this type of thing, but we all need to learn. We need some leaders to step up and lead us in fighting this fight. And we need to give them our full support, and we need to gain the support of the public.
/.ers get the gumption to run, some of us will get elected.
What we need is for some of us who "get it" to run for office. That way, there will be some technically knowledgeable people actually working on the legislation before the courts need to get involved. If enough
Writing and calling are easy. Sending money is even easier. Maybe it's time we start doing the hard things. It's not that hard to get involved, but it will take a lot of effort to make it to a place where we can make a difference. Start locally, aim nationally.
(And yes, I've started following my own advice. I may not make it far, but I feel I'm doing more than just writing/calling/sending money.)
JOhn.
As a QA professional, I cringe at the thought of a system such as the proposed one being rolled out in ninety days. Just how much testing could such a system go through? Certainly not much in the way of load/stress testing, nor security testing. This assumes, of course, that testing time would even be built into the system. Knowing how many compromises are made in the corporate world to meet some exec's arbitrary deadline, I would not trust *my* personal data to such a system any time in the next century!
This assumes, of course, that the people who boarded those planes all used valid ID cards. As any teenager can tell you, fake IDs are fairly easy to obtain, and I doubt that those who currently provide fake drivers' licenses will have a moral problem with providing fake national ID cards.
You know, I've read a lot of stuff, both here and other places, that claims that if encryption were breakable by some governmental TLA agency, that the events of Sept. 11 could have been avoided. Um, has there been any evidence yet that the perpetrators of the terrorist acts actually used any form of encryption to plan this? So far, all I see is posturing and postulating. What did I miss?