full-disclosure - Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect 

--On Friday, August 29, 2003 7:13 PM -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>
> You're totally missing the point.
>
And this surprises you?
>
> If I'm doing security 30 hours a week, that's 30 hours a week I'm not
> available for other things.
>
[skip the long litany of *other* things you could be doing]
>
In case anybody thinks that Valdis is somehow bragging, forget it.  The 
many roles he is expected to fulfill are typical in a university 
environment.  There *is* no such thing as "an intrusion detection 
specialist".  Everyone in edu wears many hats - most of which are fulltime 
jobs in their own right.
>
> And you can't weasel out by saying "Hire somebody else to do that other
> stuff"  or "hire somebody else to do security" - the point is that if we
> did hire somebody else, then we'd only have 1 person of the 2 available
> for productive work.  If we didn't have to keep spending resources on
> security, BOTH people would be available then.

That's won't stop anyone from trying though.  They actually think 
"security" is the stuff you *should* be doing, not helping your users be 
more productive.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu