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Article #864Re: Security vs usefulness (was Re: reasons
From: Olaf Titz
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:25
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:25
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In article <1992Dec15.162703.3216@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> palmer@Trade_Zone.msfc.nasa.gov writes: >In article 1gkpsmINNn05@iraul1.ira.uka.de, s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes: >>In article <1992Dec14.211255.15839@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> palmer@Trade_Zone.msfc.nasa.gov writes: >> ^^^^^^^^ >>You see that the following applies largely to government/military only? > >Please do not do me the disservice of discounting my statements simply >because I happen to have sent my message from a NASA provided host. My I didn't want to dimiss your statements, but rather to point out that there surely are different considerations at nasa.gov than at universities. My experience with the matter is only from academical installations, and my criticism applies largely to them only. >statements apply just as well to the purely commercial organizations I >have worked for that have a vested interest in maintaining the >integrity of their computers. O.K., commercial sites might have a similar position. Olaf -- | Olaf Titz - comp.sc.student | o | uknf@dkauni2.bitnet | old address | | univ. of karlsruhe - germany | _>\ _ | s_titz@ira.uka.de | is still | | +49-721-60439 | (_)<(_) | praetorius@irc | valid | "My heart is human - my blood is boiling - my brain IBM" - Mr. Roboto
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!uka!s_titz From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Security vs usefulness (was Re: reasons Message-ID: <1gl4dvINNovt@iraul1.ira.uka.de> Date: 15 Dec 92 17:25:19 GMT References: <1gkpsmINNn05@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <1992Dec15.162703.3216@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: irau31.ira.uka.de