Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call 52
alphadogg writes "Security and how to protect users from pervasive monitoring will dominate the proceedings when members of Internet Engineering Task Force meet in London starting Sunday. For an organization that develops the standards we all depend on for the Internet to work, the continued revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have had wide-ranging repercussions. 'It wasn't a surprise that some activities like this are going on. I think that the scale and some of the tactics surprised the community a little bit. ... You could also argue that maybe we needed the wake-up call,' said IETF Chairman Jari Arkko. Part of that work will also be to make security features easier to use and for the standards organization to think of security from day one when developing new protocols."
They will destroy your reputation (Score:2, Informative)
oh really.. what about a but of a clean up first? (Score:3, Informative)
And yet, despite the clear conflict of interest, an NSA employee remains in a position of trust in a cryptography standard [arstechnica.com]. No accusation against the guy since don't know him. However, if you or I got caught trying to damage the standard we were working in, we'd get sued. If he got caught he'd just be told to be more careful next time. It is totally inappropriate and the IETF should act.