[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: CAK as a really bad form of corporate networking




At 10:28 AM -0700 10/10/97, Tim May wrote:
>One way to look at the market for CAK is that a company is too flaky to
>have a corporate network or backup strategy and is using CAK as a kind of
>crude networking scheme. E-mail, with cc:ing of the company crypto czar, is
>a way to archive or pool company traffic. A rather back-assed approach, it
>seems to me.

Another way to look at it is:  Large corporations aren't much different
from governments.  Their management doesn't know what is going on down in
the trenches, and they are scared.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill Frantz       | Internal surveillance      | Periwinkle -- Consulting
(408)356-8506     | helped make the USSR the   | 16345 Englewood Ave.
[email protected] | nation it is today.        | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA