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

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Fri, 22 November 2013 14:56 UTC

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Robin,

Jon is correct in term of the usual terminology employed in the security 
community.

Also, because we have said that we are trying to address passive wiretapping
effected by a wide range of adversaries, I don't think we're focusing 
exclusively
on entities who are "legitimate" participants.

Steve

On 11/21/13 6:27 PM, Robin Wilton wrote:
> 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...
>
> R

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