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Ed Felten: How I Became a Policy Wonk
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:53:49 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just read this piece by Ed Felten (Freedom to Tinker) that I really, really relate to -- it somewhat describe an evolution that many computer/network security folk make in the course of their careers, I think. [snip] "When I started out in research, I had no idea public policy would become a focus of my work. The switch wasnt so much a conscious decision as a gradual realization that events and curiosity had led me into a new area. This kind of thing happens all the time in research: we stumble around until we reach an interesting result and then, with the benefit of hindsight, we construct a just-so story explaining why that result was natural and inevitable. If the result is really good, then the just-so story is right, in a sense it justifies the result and it explains how we would have gotten there if only we hadnt been so clueless at the start." "My just-so story has me figuring out three things. (1) Policy is deep and interesting. (2) Policy affects me directly. (3) Policy and computer security are deeply connected." [snip] More: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1133 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF8a04q1pz9mNUZTMRAgwUAJ4mwhjZnnNpzqzbnc2+m6L6Mz1opgCeOR21 r7NhYAXwoP77Nh0svpYZoWY= =ZnKg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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