>What exactly is the difference between systems and standards and policies and procedures? Policies and procedures are paper based sets of instructions. I.e. t

>What exactly is the difference between systems and standards and policies and procedures? Policies and procedures are paper based sets of instructions. I.e. the 4th amendment. Systems and standards are electrically programmed. I.e. encryption. It is the difference between saying "this should not be done" and actually designing a system in which it cannot be done. >"The mere existence of the "police state" anywhere is the sure sign of old arrangements being propped up by newer forms that have already rendered the older forms irrelevant." -Marshall McLuhan, Take Today: The Executive as Dropout