Mark Crispin writes:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:Several Americans have reported being relieved of their wallets during IETF. No Russians have. Could this difference possibly be related to the different attitudes revealed by nationals of the two countries? ;)I presume (hope) that you mean that, compared to Russians, Americans are less clueful about security issues when travelling abroad and have wallets which are more worth stealing (= have more money and credit cards with higher limits).
Have you been to Amsterdam/Venice/<x>? Have you seen the wide-eyed tourists, very obviously thinking «gee, this isn't at all like Des Moines/San Tone/<y>»?
I've never lifted anyone's wallet and don't know what the professionals are looking for, but my amateur analysis is that that look says «please do relieve me of my possessions». (That said, I'm sure the IETF secdir people have well-justified contempt for this sort of amateur analysis.)
It was a pleasant dinner. Arnt