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| Subject: | Re: GISList: the sky is NOT falling.... |
| Date: |
06/13/2002 01:25:48 AM |
| From: |
viktoras d |
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You know, while reading your letter I remembered the Soviet times in my
country. The "security paranoya" was so strong that all major towns and
cities were removed from their real positions in all maps issued inside the
territory of the USSR in these times. Any Bathymetric maps was a top secret
of the state, etc... Weird things are happening these days too. I do not
like these tendentions at all :(
>From: "Anthony Quartararo" <ajq3@spatialnetworks.com>
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>Subject: GISList: the sky is NOT falling....
>Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:23:48 -0400
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>I've just finished reading the latest EOM hardcopy issue (their online is a
>few months behind). I noted with some initial interest the "Industry
>Insider" article about security and offshore data conversion. It would
>seem, that the author's contention that utilities and telecommunications
>networks are in imminent danger by would-be saboteurs. Further, the author
>recommends incredible overnight changes to the way data conversion
>operations are run in the "Third World". We are at risk of piracy,
>terrorism, industrial sabotage, not to mention a host of implied threats by
>simply outsourcing data convesion functions to foreign companies.
>
>The article contends that unless drastic measures are taken immediately to
>turn otherwise humble production operations into Fort Knox fortresses, very
>bad things may start happening. What left me dumbfounded was the sentence
>that said "...cost savings is [sic] always an important factor...it should
>never lead any business model." What? An article about outsourcing to
>offshore companies claiming that price shouldn't matter? The point I
>suppose is that Chicken Little is getting much too much press time, and has
>crept into the GIS profession all too easily.
>
>Look at every major ISV and consulting firm. A year ago, Homeland Security
>would have been mistaken for some Pat Buchanan or Le Pen initiative. Now,
>everyone has reinvented themselves and overloaded that tiny little Homeland
>Security wagon, and people are buying it wholesale. They're buying it
>because they are reading articles like this and thinking that because it is
>published in a reputable magazine like EOM, it must have great weight.
>
>If the FBI can't keep Robert Hanson from giving away secrets, what makes
>anyone think that a GIS data conversion shop somewhere in India, Russia,
>China, Malaysia, etc. can prevent someone from walking away with important
>stuff. I'd even wager that plenty of onshore conversion vendors (there are
>some left...) have absolutely no method to prevent someone walking off with
>records. But its a moot point really. The sensationalism is not needed
>nor
>warranted really, in my opinion, because bad things can be done by bad
>people without involving GIS at all, and scaring up hysteria does no one
>any
>favors.
>
>Am I alone in my perspective on this ?
>
>Anthony
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