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By ANN SULLIVAN
Network
World, 12/25/00
Industry watchdogs
Eugene Spafford
Mario Monti
Marc Rotenberg
Eugene Spafford
Director, Center for Education and Eugene Spafford, director, Center
for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, Purdue University
Spaf, as he's known to friends, is all about the technical and ethical nuances of information security. In 2000, he met with President Clinton, staff and 28 security experts to discuss last winter's high-profile distributed denial-of-service attacks. He's known for his analogies, such as this one: "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea: massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
Mario Monti
European competition commissioner, European Union
Dubbed Super Mario by the European press, Monti isn't afraid to flex his regulatory muscles on either side of the Atlantic. Rather, the Italian-born commissioner who serves as the European Union's antitrust chief seems to thrive on it. Just ask WorldCom and Sprint. Or Time Warner and EMI. The European Commission - the executive arm of the EU - vetoed the WorldCom/Sprint merger, and objections raised by Monti's office effectively killed the proposed Time Warner/EMI deal. Time Warner fared better with its AOL merger plans; the EU granted approval of the merger in October after a four-month investigation.
Marc Rotenberg
Executive director, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Privacy champion Rotenberg is out to protect citizens and keep the feds' electronic surveillance capabilities in check. He divides his time among running the Electronic Privacy Information Center, testifying before Congress, teaching information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center … and playing chess. Rotenberg has long been an activist; he recalls marching at the age of 7, with his parents and wearing a sandwich board, to protest the Vietnam War.
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