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To: Scoobah who wrote (4414)	10/12/2001 12:34:57 AM
From: spiral3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Lets hope that the Attack on Americans has made US planners long term thinkers now. Yup, it’s time to examine our vulnerabilities and fix them. It is not a blame game it is a deadly one. Not to be isolationist, but global brotherhood aside, our dependance on oil, which is not on our land, is a fundamental strategic weakness. Our continued complicity in letting oil, on a global basis, dominate the means of production is a Defensive error. We do not control that which we rely on for our power. Holy water and holy oil do not mix. The US has the resources to be preeminent in developing, controlling and exporting alternative energy technology. As a Satmar Rabbi once said “you cannot take pork and make it Kosher”. Economic Development is a strategic weapon. Business as usual is not going to cut it in the new world order. Here’s a good one. I will now say something politically incorrect in the extreme. The reason we face horrible security problems these days on the net is to a large extent (although by no means solely) because we've developed an operating system software monoculture on the internet, with a single supplier being responsible for the overwhelming bulk of software installs. This supplier is about as incompetent as you can possibly imagine at handling security issues, with large numbers of its own machines typically being infected by each new worm hitting the net. If the Federal government wants to avoid having its networks being vulnerable, having a polyculture of systems and software replacing the current monoculture, with systems being connected by open protocols rather than common use of undocumented file formats, is the single most important act it could take. Perry Metzger CEO Wasabi Systems interesting-people.org