[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On May 9, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote:

> hi
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich 
> <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>>  > I am behind a professionally-maintained firewall running on Linux. 
>>
>> So are a bunch of other people, making your portion of the network
>>  non-private in relation to them.
>
> Right, but this building has guards 24/7/365; the floor has security 
> cameras; and I know all of the people on this floor and trust them.  
> Security has a cost, and there is the concept of diminishing marginal 
> utility.  Remember the story of a boy who earned money by selling his 
> first sheep.  He bought a purse for the money, and then locked zipper 
> bag to keep the purse secure; and then a locked box for the zipper 
> bag, and then a safe for the locked box, and then had just a few 
> pennies left to safeguard.  If I had your skills or Rick's skills, I 
> would have better security; but IMHO, the cameras and the guards are 
> going to be okay for now. 

I wrote:

[snip]
> my opinion that nobody would be masochistic enough to want to 
> reconstruct DV data from a packet dump, anyway.

In this case, you already have the purse, the locked zipper bag, the 
locked box, and the safe. You are proposing not to use them, which is 
fine, but also to buy many books on how not to use them, thus leaving 
the same few pennies to safeguard. Diminishing marginal utility works 
both ways.