Mark Rasch
Mark Rasch
Mark D. Rasch is an attorney and author, working in the areas of corporate and government cybersecurity, privacy and incident response. He is currently the Chief Security Evangelist for Verizon Communications after having been Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Privacy and Data Security Officer for SAIC. From 1983-1992, Rasch worked at the U.S. Department of Justice within the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. Rasch earned a J.D. in 1983 from State University of New York at Buffalo and is...
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There is nothing about computer security in the law -- nothing.
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Most companies have a policy that says if you use our computers you consent to our monitoring.
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If you are a determined bad guy, you will find relatively easy ways to avoid detection. The good news is that most bad guys are not clever and not determined.
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If you have a policy that says e-mail can be monitored but in 10 years you've never monitored anybody's e-mail, then your de facto policy is that e-mail is not monitored.
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The bad guy will have gone through many, many steps to conceal his identity, through pirated or hacked accounts.
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What banks have essentially done is put ATMs in people's living rooms. The security is only as good as that of the home computer.
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What I would as a parent argue is that I can consent to my kid's monitoring. Hey, it's my kid. I can read their mail, but the federal law doesn't make any distinction. If I'm reading anybody's communications without their consent or without a consent of one party, I'm violating federal law.
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There's no question in my mind that once we make the networks less secure because of CALEA, we will exploit that lack of security to intercept communications under every legal authority asserted by the government.
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I give out my address to certain Internet places because I need something shipped to me. I don't have a choice.
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I'd be very surprised if the FBI does not catch this guy.
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I would say the Fourth Amendment (guaranteeing protection against unreasonable searches) is the Fourth Amendment, and the fact that you're invading the privacy of millions as opposed to dozens should make it worse, not better.
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They sell it, and they make money off the personal information that I have given them. And what we are recognizing now on the Internet is that personal information is commodity.
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This guy didn't participate in the misappropriation, and probably didn't conspire with anybody to misappropriate it. Once it's posted online, it's just not secret anymore. At some point it becomes public information.
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This is the government entity responsible for letting contracts for security. Clearly the people who log in would know about security.