<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 07/11/2003 05:36:41 GMT Daylight Time, mail@harveynewstrom.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> Welcome back Harvey, That is some serious list of credentials you<BR>
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Thanks. I am seriously interested in security. I am analyzing security as<BR>
an engineering problem with requirements, standards, principles,<BR>
methodology, and verification. Most security consultants don't have the<BR>
scientific or engineering background to do more than be consumers of other<BR>
people's security products. I also am trying to cover all the different<BR>
kinds of security. Creating security, auditing security, managing security,<BR>
assessing security, consulting about security, and operating security are<BR>
different skills. <BR>
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What is interesting to me is that security is not an end in itself. It is a<BR>
tool that can be used for any endeavor, just like logic, the scientific<BR>
method, etc. Security measures a bunch of different attributes, how well<BR>
they are implemented, the risk of failure, and improvement methods for<BR>
success. There are standard requirements for security, and a bunch of<BR>
different security attributes that can be analyzed and addressed separately.<BR>
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I think these security methods can be applied to transhumanist endeavors,<BR>
such as developing AI, controlling nanotechnology, mitigating dangerous<BR>
technologies, evaluating knowledge accuracy, etc. I plan to further<BR>
investigate these ideas in the future. Getting credentials in different<BR>
types of security is just the first step.<BR>
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All very good stuff. Its nice to see someone that takes all aspects of security seriously, as I do myself. It is most definitely an area which most people see as not much more than a necessary evil. Even with events over the last couple of years and a greater general awareness of security needs, both physical and electronic. there is still an underlying tone of ambivalence and half arsed efforts when it comes to security issues.<BR>
I wouldn't mind getting a few credentials and seriously getting into the field myself.<BR>
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Alex</FONT></HTML>