U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

Thu Jul 8 02:33:57 UTC 2010

You forgot

-It is carrier grade, ISO certified and other certification program not worth the paper it is printed on.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis at lewis.org>
To: "Patrick Giagnocavo" <patrick at zill.net>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Sent: Thursday, 8 July, 2010 2:14:53 PM
Subject: Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> andrew.wallace wrote:
>> Article:
>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704545004575352983850463108.html
>>
>
> Why does it cost $100 million to install and configure OpenBSD on a
> bunch of old systems?

A) it's being done for the government
B) it's being done by a defense contractor
C) regardless of what they install, somebody's got to manage it and be 
managed by multiple layers of managers
D) other