On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:23:37 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: >Agreed...(about screen scraping). I have run into a few over the last >40 something years. bIt is just plain a DON'T DO IT. >Twice I have been called in at 0000 something in the morning because >some IDIOT thought it was a "good" idea. Not only didn't they tell >anybody they were buying some product that did it they never thought >something would change. 20 or so years ago we went from TCAM to VTAM >and actually had two "applications" die one of the people claimed it >was my fault (he had signed off on the change request no less). One >presented such a security exposure that when I found out I just went >to the auditor and let me have a run at the people. ... > How was it a security exposure? For example, was it worse than photographing the screen with a smart phone (but are camera phones prohibited effectively at your site?) and passing the result to an OCR program?
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