On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Dan Grossman wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Dan Grossman wrote:
> >
> > > There are other sites that don't but should. For example, several sites that
> > > I use regularly do not use SSL for passwords. I've complained, but it's like
> > > complaining to a brick wall. A particularly annoying one is a site which
> > > partners with my (personal) ISP to allow me to tunnel email through HTTP and
> > > HTML. No use of SSL at all, even for password. Lloyd suggests not using
> > > them.
> >
> > see below.
> >
> > > I don't make it a point to cut off my nose to spite my face: there are
> > > times when the alternative is no access to personal email at all.
> > [..]
> >
> > so you've evaluated the risks and you judge them acceptable. as anyone
> > else can do.
>
> No, I judge them acceptable for some subnets but not others.
again, a personal choice. As anyone else can have.
> The point is not to let the quest for perfection be the enemy of the merely
> good enough.
heh. that's never stopped you thus far.
> > Remember that any shared link is a (privileged/limited/scope/local)
> > commons; as an asset the link itself generally has little intrinsic
> > value
>
> I think that certain Operators who've recently broken the bank for 3G spectrum
> might take issue with that :-)
as operators, they sell services. they broke their bank (well, the
first time - UK; later bidding processes oddly wound up with the same
number of coalitions as there were licences) because they thought the
the cost of being able to enable those services was worthwhile.
> > Claude Bastiat's "What is seen and not seen" is imo a far more
> > perceptive and relevant take on the whole thing than a limited-scope
> > military/commercial asset-protection doctrine, and has a far better
> > sense of proportion.
>
> Reference??
http://www.google.com/
or your local library.
> Again, this is getting off-topic and should be concluded privately.
it's concluded here. this has already taken too much of my time...
L.
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