Carter's words sound like the man who see's his judgement, but still uselessly pleads innocent for the decisions he believes should be kept in the dark.
I remember when my small private university received its first DOJ request in 2005 to install wire-tapping hardware on our servers. We in the IT department circled up and met, deciding to ignore this letter as a disgrace to the American public, the constitution, and the human values we believed in. Even receiving shamed us, and stirred anger and fear for years after.
When we ignored it, no request came again and no consequence -- because the people who asked us to do wrong would never ask us to do it again by the light of day.
Remember: stand true to what is right for you and those around you, whether in private or in public, and you'll never regret that choice from this day to your last.
Interesting, how do you know it was the actually the DOJ and not lets say Chinese or Russians using faked official looking letterhead to get a backdoor in your system.
This is just an example of how government stupidity when it comes to computer security is leading to MORE vulnerability and insecurity.
You did the right thing if dragged into court you could have rightfully pointed out that you refused for patriotic reasons since the whole thing "smelled" wrong and sounded like an attempt by foreign bodies to infiltrate your network, which would have got you into alot of trouble...
I wonder how the likes of Googles of this world response to similar requests...
Maybe the higher ups thought about that and invited the relevant engineers (or their boss) from Google and the likes at their offices in the Pentagon or some other place. At least that is not fakable.
He was 'thrown in the slammer' for a decade worth of accounting fraud and insider trading.. His excuse was that the big bad NSA was out to get him, but I'm not quite sure how that explains his fraudulent Enron deals;
They asked to install wire-tapping hardware on your servers because it is cheaper than hidden wire-tapping. If they do not ask again, it may be that their hidden wire-tapping hardware is in place. Or maybe, this is only conspiracy theory ?
I remember when my small private university received its first DOJ request in 2005 to install wire-tapping hardware on our servers. We in the IT department circled up and met, deciding to ignore this letter as a disgrace to the American public, the constitution, and the human values we believed in. Even receiving shamed us, and stirred anger and fear for years after.
When we ignored it, no request came again and no consequence -- because the people who asked us to do wrong would never ask us to do it again by the light of day.
Remember: stand true to what is right for you and those around you, whether in private or in public, and you'll never regret that choice from this day to your last.