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Subject: Re: A short dialogue
From: dotytr @ nscultrix2 . network . com (Ted Doty)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 09:06:36 CDT
To: brent @ greatcircle . com, pmetzger @ lehman . com
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

> Have you stopped to consider that maybe what's wrong is that your
> site, with your security concerns, shouldn't be on the Internet in the
> first place?  You've apparently got this rose-colored image of how
> things "used to be", and how things "ought to be", that just doesn't
> match reality.

I recall a session at Interop `90 (I think) where Dave Clark said that
the 1990s would be the decade of the "Great Unplugging" as people began
to lose real money from antisocial net.behavior.

At the time, I thought he was crazy.

- Ted

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