In <[email protected]>, on 04/03/2010
at 09:48 AM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> said:
>We had a *REALLY* good applications programmer that simply bypassed any
>and all protections we had,
Every time that I've seen anything similar it's been lax security code,
not a bug in the system. I'm not saying that there weren't security
exposures in the pre-DFP pre-SP days, but they were harder to exploit
than, e.g., default passwords, "magic" SVC's.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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