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While Googling on Information security(see previous post for details), I landed up on a message archive - I was amazed at the span of the discusion going on there - the audience to this discussion ranges from software developers, network-admins, managers, IT professionals, IT managers and even social researchers . . .
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014383.html

The discussion begin's with a harmless techie doubt about opening ports and tunneling (browse the link below if you want to read the techie replies - the current post does not cover them)
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014339.html

The next few replies were techy in nature, but the discussion turned soon to Good Software development practices with people taking moral high ground. . .
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014386.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014390.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014404.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014387.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014395.html

Soon someone raised a finger on Managers who keep pressing for unmeetable deadlines, thus ensuing a fight between managers and developers ....

http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014399.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014405.html

After some mud-slinging sense prevailed when someone raised the issue whether software 'engineering' is an 'engineering' science at all, or a larger issue of management
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014408.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014412.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014417.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014409.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014398.html

Software development managment gave way to technology managment in non-tech companies
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014413.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014423.html

Then came a pied piper who argued that Open Source software was the pancea to all the problems cited in the disussion till now... and counterviews soon followed
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014424.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014426.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014425.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014428.html

Then someone pointed out that all this is a bigger question of being Ethical . .
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014402.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014401.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014391.html

And finally from mere Ethics the discussion came round to "Democracy" . . . . .
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014393.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014397.html
http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2003-April/014394.html

There is a saying in Hindi - 'duniya gol hai' (the world is a sphere). . . . well it is not just 'gol' physically but even figuratively .... all aspects of our life are so connected that one can find parallels between even unrelated aspects like Democracy and technology !!

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