Claus Kalle <Kalle@rrz.uni-koeln.de>:
My impression is that the role of providing neutral ground for organizations like CERTs should/can be taken over by federations like EurOpen for Europe and the respective national groups like EurOpen.SE (Sweden), GUUG (Germany), NLUUG (The Netherlands) & UKUUG (United Kingdom) and the others.
Would that really be a good idea? Those organisations are to my knowledge purely Unix oriented. Would they be very interested in pursuing security problems with VAX/VMS, MS Windows and MacOS? No, it has to be an independent organisation. Actually, it shouldn't even be related to networking, but to *computing*!
Best regards,
/Liman
Having been round most of the organisations in our empires perhapse we should think again about government ones? Some the activities we are interested in are illegal so perhapse this also points to police/government or some combination. If it were at that level the funding would not be from the likes of ourselves. Paul. Paul Bryant. Rutherford Lab, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX, GB Tel. +44 235 445 267 Fax. +44 235 446 626
Having been round most of the organisations in our empires perhapse we should think again about government ones? Some the activities we are interested in are illegal Illegal by which law(s)? so perhapse this also points to police/government or some combination. Are you kidding? Involving police/government might well become counterproductive, since their ideas about (computer) security are often a bit strange, to put it mildly. A clear case is the proposal recently by the Dutch government for making encryption effectively illegal; needless to say that this led to a storm of protest and eventually to the withdrawal of the proposal; and to the even more rapid spreading of PGP.... Piet
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