Publié le 12-04-2011 23:04 sur la mailing-list Dailydave

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On Apr 10, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Nick Selby wrote:

> Federal government spending priorities have been much in the news recently, and I think that moving the money to the general fund simply punts the political football into different arenas.

Which is in fact the arena in which it's supposed to be; obviating the principle of subsidiarity by doing otherwise removes the ability of the legislative to oversee and control the actions of the executive. This holds true at the local, state, and federal national levels of government within any type of political system.

I live and work in a part of the world in which it is not unheard of for law enforcement agencies to be deliberately underfunded by the authorities and then left to their own devices in terms of enforcing the law, raising revenues, and compensating their members. The results are, shall we say, mixed.

> I appreciated your comment very much.

Thank you for your kind words. From the standpoint of the information security professional, your article is actually an exposition of a classic example of the manifold dangers that lack of appropriate controls and oversight lead to in any sphere of activity, human or electronic.

The larger point is that, irrespective of the personal and professional integrity of individual actors, any system of any type in any context (not just governmental; but one could certainly argue *especially* governmental) must be designed in such as way so as to assume the worst about those actors; and to define the scope of, provide visibility into, and allow mitigation of their actions as required.

This is a foundational principle of information security - i.e., hope for the best, but plan for the worst - and its abeyance in both the specific case under discussion and in the application of information security tools and techniques in law enforcement in general certainly gives one pause.

In particular, combining the role of leader of the police intelligence unit described in the article with the power to seize assets in order to fund said police intelligent unit creates an overwhelming inducement to a) justify as much asset forfeiture as possible in order to b) develop enough intelligence to justify even more asset forfeiture. Whether deliberate or accidental, this feedback loop is a stunning policy design flaw in the law enforcement agency in question, with strong negative implications for the real and perceived integrity of agencies and individuals in question.

The infosec implications of/analogies relevant to the above are left as an exercise for the reader.

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