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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: Boycotting CERT because of the keystroke monitoring advisory?
- In-Reply-To: wack@ariel.ncsl.nist.gov (John Wack)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.184224.13029@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1993Jan4.212439.4278@nntp.hut.fi> <7776@dove.nist.gov>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:42:24 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <7776@dove.nist.gov>, wack@ariel (John Wack) writes:
- >I'm hesitant to enter the fray on this issue, but I'd like to point out
- >that CERT/CC is simply passing on some guidance from the U.S. DoJ and
- >shouldn't be blamed if you disagree with the guidance -- although I don't
- >dispute your right to disagree.
-
- Actually, it appears from the advisory and my correspondence with CERT
- that CERT considerably expanded the scope of the original advisory and
- is not taking the privacy issues at all into account in the advisory,
- and as a result is recommending to everyone a policy allowing any
- surveillance whatsoever.
-
- >I believe that CERT/CC felt that the
- >guidance should be out there to the widest audience, despite the
- >guidance being less than precise.
-
- The advisory by CERT doesn't seem to support this belief. If CERT
- posts another message that takes the privacy issues into account and
- does not recommend methods to make all surveillance possible then I
- don't think there's a problem.
-
- >But I don't think that the CERT/CC
- >should be avoided or "ignored" or whatever because of this issue.
-
- I encourage everyone to judge the information and decide for
- themselves.
-
- >By
- >and large I think that the CERT does a lot of good.
-
- I agree that they do good things also.
-
- //Jyrki
-