Re: Cuervo, I disagree: ShareSniffer Released

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From: John Navas
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 21:08

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In <61u2atco7993p70qhaekmf9qo4kr7at2mq@4ax.com>, rtoledo@gte.net wrote:

>On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:01:53 GMT,  John Navas
><spamfilter@navasgrp.dublin.ca.us> wrote:

>>You seem to assume that security is relatively straightforward.  The
>>real problem is that it's not straightforward -- what you don't know can
>>and all too often does hurt you.  Even with smart people and sufficient
>>resources there will still be security breaches because the issues are
>>enormously complex.  Furthermore the government has the additional
>>problems of such things as budgets and mandates which can greatly
>>complicate security issues.  I'm not saying that there is no stupidity,
>>just that the problem is nowhere near as simple as we might think.
>
>I still have to wonder WHY put it online in the first place? why not
>on a dial up with return call to ck who is using this info?
>
>I realize that in security building a steel door on a termite ridden
>wood frame with open windows is useless and false security. also that
>the human factor is always easier to brake/circumbent than the code
>
>but WHY make it that easy?

With all due respect, your characterization of "that easy" is based on
assumptions that might not be valid.  It's possible that the "Internet"
access was by means of compromising a system that in turn had access to
the code on some other system -- it might not have been direct access.
It's very difficult to prevent all such exploits short of providing
absolutely no network access to machines with classified materials.

-- 
Best regards,
John Navas     <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
     CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE:  <http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/>

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Subject: Re: Cuervo, I disagree: ShareSniffer Released
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