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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:03 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > What I wrote was: > > | The question > > || Were once SVC's ok, and now they are not preferred? > > | could be colored naif, but it is an entirely legitimate one, and the > answer is yes. > > It reflected my view that, while Lindy's question had been > condescended to, it was in fact an "entirely legitimate" one. > > This view, expressed umambiguously, was somehow transmogrified into a > vehicle of insult followed by condescension. It was neither, and a > neutral native English speaker would not have judged it to be either. > > Let me therefore make my advice more specific. SVC routines are > lumbered with a long history of machinery---types, transient areas, > segmentation into 4096-byte pieces, etc., etc,---that is now > irrelevant. If you have SVC routines that do something that is at > once useful and secure, maintain them; if instead you are setting out > to do something ab initio, use PC routines instead. Finally, try to > consider, dispassionately, the uncomfortable question whether you know > enough to do what you are proposing to do safely and securely. > > I entirely agree with the substance of what Peter Relson has been > saying (if not always with the wording of his strictures). Services > should be implemented only by people who know what they are doing, > i.e., by the over-competent. Most of the user SVC routines I have > examined are 1) dispensable, 2) ill-conceived, and 3) insecurely > implemented. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > -- Cheers! Bernard "Benny" Villegas The University of Georgia Biomedical Engineering & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Undergraduate Biomedical Science Researcher Cell: 770-344-9080
