re: ICSA

[iwchick () mail clark net]

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At 11:18 AM 1/14/99 -0500, Richard Reiner wrote:

<snip>
> In brief: Any organization which denominates itself an "Association",
but
> which is in reality a private, for-profit company, seems to me to
lose all
> credibility.  (Were this not a public forum, I would use far stronger
terms
> to say what I think of this practice.)
>
> Moreover, for such a commercial, for-profit entity to further the
common
> misapprehension that it is a non-profit in the public interest by the
> adoption of a slogan such as "The Objective Authority in Computer
Network
> Security" (currently plastered across ICSA's home page) strikes me
(in my
> personal, no doubt biased, misguided, foolish, etc. opinion) as
OFFENSIVE
> IN THE EXTREME.
<snip>


I could not agree more wholeheartedly with this opinion.  I also find
it rather interesting that they have a membership program.  Could this
membership program actually be interpreted as the opportunity to share
in the profit of the organization?  I'm sure they have some small
print in the application that rules out that option...but it's just a
thought.


Lori L. Woehler, CISSP


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