Re: Security and the Government

[Rama Kant <kant () adeptech com>]

In the not too distant past I looked into the House's email 
issues.  Members of Congress use email but, when it comes down to issues 
effecting government policies email is not reliable.  One cannot know where 
(China, Cuba, Iowa?) it came from or is it a mass mail campaign.

Also, congressmen are influenced by either their constituents or by 
lobbyist.  We all know how lobbyists communicate with the representative of 
the government.  As far as constituents are concerned, congressmen have to 
know which constituency the email correspondent belongs to, and that is why 
the snail mail route is taken.

Rama Kant

At 10:56 PM 01/13/2001, Lance Spitzner wrote:
> I have no idea where to post this, so I thought I would
> bounce this off the peanut gallery :)
>
> I decided to express some of my concerns about our government's
> computer security to our representatives.  After some searching,
> I found the "SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION
> AND TECHNOLOGY" at http://www.house.gov/reform/gmit/index.htm.
> The committee is chaired by Congressmen Stephen Horn, who
> recently released the committee's first report on computer
> security.
>
> I went to Mr. Horn's website to obtain his email address,
> http://www.house.gov/horn/.  I found the address, but how he
> uses email concerns me.  Remeber, this is one of the lead
> congressmen involved in the USA's Information Technology.
>
>   "Send e-mail to steve.horn () mail house gov.  Please
>    include your full name and postal address, including
>    ZIP code, since I respond by U.S. mail. Thank you."
>
> What can one imply from this .... ?
>
>
> If this it totally off base, please excuse my wandering ways.
>
> --
> Lance Spitzner
> http://project.honeynet.org
>
>
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