Re: Reuters: Microsoft to give holes info to Uncle Sam first - responsible vendor notification may not be a good idea any more...

["J.A. Terranson" <measl () mfn org>]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> If you have critical infrastructure out on a secretary's desk, you're doing
> something *very* wrong....

The problem here is that "government" is not a bunch of smaller units that
can be selectively given pre-material.  "Government" is a huge morass of
systems, many of which are critical, and many more of which talk to
something critical by dint of being owned by this entity "government".
Because any "government" issue is likely to cascade, all government is, by
definition, critical.

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
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