John Young on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:06:56 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Bruce Schneier: U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google |
Schneier is Chief Security Officer for British Telecom which like all communications providers run lucrative businesses aiding government spying on customers and claim it must be done because others do it, and, predictably, there is no perfect security, only expensive vigilance and eloquent exculpation. The natsec and comsec cultures thrive on the unavoidable sin and salvation lessons learned from political and religious charlatans. Still, better to recycle insecurity hosannahs than to slaughter, better to squander money on crap health care than hideous war toys to enforce evangelical concrete border walls. Bruce is among the best at ridiculing the pretenses of the security racket, not unlike the best of critics inside the privileges. The earthly security enterprises are very generous to those who red team vulnerabilities of their products but do not tell the whole story, just enough to sustain demand -- regulated by NDA, classification and business-confidentiality. More titillations, for example, at The Danger Zone (!) and Threat Level (!+!), soon again at perennially threatened Wikileaks (!!!), at the most eminently fright-ginning institutions threatened by funding diminution (!!!!) and agonized market-threatened freedom of information fora (!!!!). For the last, this admirable cliche-writ tent revival cum Tea Party: http://www.newschool.edu/pressroom/pressreleases/2010/NSSRsocresSpring2010.aspx "Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy" February 24-26 The New School, New York City The New School's Social Research Journal Announces Conference on Changes in U.S. Freedom of Information in Age of Globalization and Technology Keynote Address by Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist; Featured Speakers Daniel Ellsberg, Eric Lichtblau, Steven Aftergood # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org