follow up from Saturday's meeting

[Jamie Duncan]

1. Thanks Scott Knauss for coming up to share your research into systemd

One of the sidebars we had was talking about how no matter how securely something is created in theory, the fact that humans are human and make bad decisions can never be fully mitigated. A great recent example. 

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/02/16/1334202/la-times-snowden-had-3-helpers-inside-nsa?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed

Someone used their PKI login and then let Edward Snowden on to the system. How can you truly and practically secure against that?

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Thanks,

Jamie Duncan
@jamieeduncan

[David Sirrine]

You don't... But there's no actuality, the fact that there was no extrusion detection bells that want off saying "why are these files being copied?" is telling.

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