"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
>
> By telling people how to be insecure, we would be contributing to the
> increasing attitude of complaceny. If we make it hard to get answers on
> how to be insecure, then people will fight it less and understand it
> more. It's like making stupidity physically painfull. The more it hurts,
> the less people will do it. After all, the more people accept security
> as a way of life, the less inconvient it becomes.
Wasn't it you who was just recently claiming that stupidity SHOULD be
painful?
(* Sorry - that's off topic and argumentative, but I couldn't resist ;)
*)
Allow me to relate an experience to you.
A couple years ago, when I first started working with the team I'm with
now, one of my boss's employee's (in a separate department) was
suspected of corroborating with a competitor. My boss came to me and
asked me to find a way to transparently be copied on all email coming
from or going to that employee.
Privacy issues aside (I'm NOT looking to start that debate *grin*), I
started delving into how to do it.
At the time we were using the ever popular sendmail. I looked and
looked, tried and tried, but could not figure out how to get sendmail to
do that. (Granted, I was, and still am, completely hopeless when it
comes to sendmail). In my frustration, I turned to the sendmail group
who (at least at that point) would actually field user usage questions.
I explained what I was looking to do, and why. Their response? The
equivalent of "Screw you - we disapprove so figure it out yourself".
My response? I dropped sendmail and went with exim. (Which I still am
very much an advocate of over sendmail).
My point? (Yeah, I do have one here somewhere) By just making
judgements rather than helping and offering suggestions to alternatives,
we run the same risk - distancing ourselves and alienating folks,
thereby driving them to other camps.
> PS Like I could resist an open invitation like THAT???
*heh* Why do I think we have another very long thread coming on? ;)
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Cole Tuininga
Network Admin
Code Energy, Inc
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