IETF, Twitter and Security (Was: Re: [governance] Warning : Twitter Hack)

[Andrea Glorioso]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:41 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Andrea Glorioso
> <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Andrea Glorioso
>>> <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:
>>>> McTim,
>>>>
>>>> So, would the world be that off the mark by thinking that security
>>>> problems such as those that happened to Bertrand and you (and to me as
>>>> well some days ago, by the way) are something for the IETF to think
>>>> about?
>>>
>>> IMHO, yes.  the IETF has enough to do with trying to create protocol
>>> security on lower layers.  This is many layers above that.
>>
>> Then perhaps the BCP containing the mission statement of the IETF
>> should be amended to make it a bit less bold than it currently is.
>
> No need, "social engineering" != "sound network engineering"

I was thinking more about the part of "making the Internet work
better". And I would argue that sound network engineering should at
least contribute to making social engineering harder. But probably
this goes against the other part of the mission statement, i.e.
"edge-user empowerment" (which to me always sounded a bit like a "it's
not my problem" statement).

Best,

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