Fwd: Trump questions quest for cybersecurity: 'No computer is safe'

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com>
> Date: January 2, 2017 at 11:13:22 AM EST
> To: "'Dave Crocker'" <dcrocker () bbiw net>, "        " <dave () farber net>
> Subject: RE: [IP] Trump questions quest for cybersecurity: 'No computer is safe'
>
> Focus is important which is why responded to this as a leverage point and close related to rationalizing away the 
> Russian entanglement.  We can't let that pass.
>
> What do you think the focus should be?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dcrocker () bbiw net] 
> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 10:30
> To: dave () farber net; ip <ip () listbox com>
> Cc: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Trump questions quest for cybersecurity: 'No computer is safe'
>
> > On 1/2/2017 6:36 AM, David Farber wrote:
> > "I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly,"
> >
> > https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-questions-quest-for-cybe
> > rsecurity-no-computer-is-safe/2017/01/01/d2e2dc80-d043-11e6-9cb0-54ab6
> > 30851e8_story.html
> >
> > By this reasoning we shouldn't ...
>
>
> Of the many challenges facing us over the next 4 years, the biggest one is going to be focus.
>
> We are being constantly harassed by stray, outrageous and inflammatory comments.  Because they come from someone with 
> such great visibility and power, we feel compelled to respond.  Each of us needs to become far more considered and 
> selective.
>
> The problem is that there are so many of these silly comments, we are -- and will continue to be -- spending all of 
> our time expressing outrage, and no time doing the actual work of getting the country back to a reasonable basis for 
> its political operations.
>
> On the average, voicing a reaction to the silly statements serves only to make the speaker feel better, rather than 
> to actually educate those who need it, or to otherwise counter the damage being done or contemplated.
>
> We have a country that has become dominated by fear and wishful thinking, resistant to straightforward explanations 
> of facts and even rejecting what is obviously true.  Simply pointing out those facts or simply explaining them again 
> and again, hasn't been working.
>
> The name of the game needs to be working for real change, not responding to silliness.
>
>
> d/
> -- 
>
>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net



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