[cap-talk] Any hope in RSA 2008?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 03:28 -0700, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> At 02:41 AM 4/4/2008, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> >These folk are trying to "solve" the problem in the sense of
> >"what can I do in the next three weeks", not "how can I rebuild the
> >world to be a better place".
> 
> Right.  However, I would think that by now since we've been
> doing what we can for the next three weeks for the last 15 years
> at least and it things haven't gotten better (they've gotten
> worse) then it does seem pretty clear to me that this three
> week horizon process is not making positive progress.

I agree, but that's not the group that this conference is marketing to.

> >In that light, methods for ensuring that processes are followed, and for
> >knowing which systems need to be reviewed when a compromise in subsystem
> >X is discovered, are very useful things.
> 
> Yes.  They are useful things, but clearly (by now) not solving
> the problem.

Depends what "the problem" is.

> So I still ask, is there any hope visible in RSA 2008?

This is a marketing conference. Why would you look to this gathering for
hope?

> That is, not just
> imagined improvement over three weeks assuming that nothing
> else changes - which of course it does.

I don't think that the customers delude themselves into believing that
improvement has occurred. What has occurred is survival.


shap