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Re: [perpass] "Its an attack" BCP draft

Robin Wilton <wilton@isoc.org> Thu, 21 November 2013 23:27 UTC

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I'm not sure I agree... in this context, "bad actors" are those who exploit their legitimate participation in a system to act in illegitimate ways, advancing their interests regardless of the disbenefit to others or to the system itself. 

That's not necessarily adversarial...

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Robin Wilton
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On 21 Nov 2013, at 19:04, Jon Callas wrote:

> On Nov 20, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
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>> 
>> Fair point, and "bad-actor" doesn't fit that well anyway. Will
>> find a better term or gladly take suggestions.
>> 
> 
> An appropriate term of art is "adversary."
> 
> 	Jon
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