Cranky Geeks: Episode 71: Is America ready for an electronic war?
http://www.crankygeeks.com/2007/07/episode_71_how_vulnerable_are.php
John C. Dvorak (dvorak.org/blog - had to get in the blog plug ;-) ) has a regular vidcast - vodcast? videocast? - to discuss issues and news stories in the technology world. Episode 71 discusses internet security and encryption with some big names in the field.
This particular episode offered some quite sincere praise for librarians. About 24 minutes into the episode, the group discusses the recent case in which four librarians were put under a gag order when they were ordered to turn over some records and they did not comply, as described in the New York Times article, Four Librarians Finally Break Silence in Records Case (this link may require you to log in to your NYT account), and in this Wired blog entry, Librarians Describe Life Under An FBI Gag Order.
Dan Farmer, a security consultant, points out that they won an award and then asks, "Who is against a librarian?"
Whitfield Diffie, VP and Chief Security Officer at Sun Microsystems, noted that when he started doing work in cryptography, he was traveling and asking questions searching for documents, and he was frequently asked "who wants to know?" type questions, but he said he never once heard that question from a librarian. He then noted that librarians have a devotion to getting the information that their clients want and then adds that he thinks they are an incredible asset.
Aw! *sniff*
It means a lot to have someone outside of the library world who recognizes what we do and appreciates that we do it and why we do it.
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