Computer Security Division Activities

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Sun Oct 14 10:32:27 EDT 2001


On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:28:52PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> What is this lunacy about registering?  Does someone seriously think
> that terrorists will attack the National Institute of Standards?
> Or that if they were serious about attacking, they wouldn't just
> pre-register their real or fake ID's so they'd be allowed in?

I'm not defending this practice, of course, but I would note that it's
not that entirely unusual for government conferences to require
registration and identification. Even before Sep. 11.

-Declan



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