{"id":208,"date":"2012-06-04T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackspherelabs.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-06-05T06:14:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:14:37","slug":"hsl-critique-protecting-sensitive-information-the-virtue-of-self-restraint-dallas-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/hsl-critique-protecting-sensitive-information-the-virtue-of-self-restraint-dallas-boyd\/","title":{"rendered":"HSL Critique &#8211; Protecting Sensitive Information:  The Virtue of Self-Restraint (Dallas Boyd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original Document:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.hackspherelabs.com\/?download=papers%2Fboyd.pdf\">http:\/\/files.hackspherelabs.com\/?download=papers%2Fboyd.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>The document discusses sources of information for sensitive information but at the same time mentions reasons not to disclose sensitive information.\u00a0 The document violates its own recommendations.\u00a0 The document discusses 3 main types of information: \u00a0Vulnerabilities, Scenarios, and Research.\u00a0 It states that some type of attitude of coming together should be shared by the people of different communities, and that this attitude should be one of protecting information.\u00a0 It describes different groups of evil people and the things that they can do with information.\u00a0 It also focuses on classified vs. sensitive information and describes the difference.\u00a0 The author also talk about how even common information can be sensitive in the wrong hands.\u00a0 The author talks of self restraint as a civic duty.\u00a0 The author shows how information transfer has changed with the changing of technology. \u00a0\u00a0Much concern was given to terrorists and how publicizing a lot of information helps them and helps us, but that it was bad when it helped them.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion:<\/p>\n<p>I have read books that were created over 100 years ago that have more information in them then the modern science book.\u00a0 How to make compounds, etc.\u00a0 It is amazing how much information is already left out of any modern work already for various reasons.\u00a0 Reasons ranging from competitiveness to audience estimation to whatever one can imagine.\u00a0 Knowledge is power and most of us know this.\u00a0 Knowledge is truth though too.\u00a0 I feel the author is right but deeply wrong in the recommendation that we become a society that feels they should hide knowledge.\u00a0 We cannot let evil things and ideas win and instead should never give up trying to build what we want in the end.\u00a0 If we make compromises protecting ourselves today how horrible are we going to be tomorrow when we forgot that it was a compromise.\u00a0 The next generation will think that it was just always acceptable that we were not supposed to talk about such and such a subject.\u00a0 The next generation will be weaker than the first.\u00a0 We should be able to handle this but the public cannot.\u00a0 If the power goes out they panic.\u00a0 If something bad happens they panic.\u00a0 Where does this panic come from?\u00a0 Instead of investing the effort into training the public to whisper I think we would be better to train the public to not panic when something crazy happens.\u00a0 Sure as with vulnerability disclosure things should be fixed before information about it was released, but what happens when the group that needs to fix it does not?\u00a0 They need pushed just like some software and hardware vendors do sometimes.\u00a0 Also how are people supposed to know what not to talk about if no one can talk about it?\u00a0 Closed circle discussion?\u00a0 Where you trained to identify every scientist in the room?\u00a0 We need more information published and we need to adapt faster instead of slowing information down because we are slow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Document: http:\/\/files.hackspherelabs.com\/?download=papers%2Fboyd.pdf Summary: The document discusses sources of information for sensitive information but at the same time mentions reasons not to disclose sensitive information.\u00a0 The document violates its own 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