Chris Craddock writes: | There is of course a presumption that the product | itself does not violate integrity which is unfortunately | rarely a valid assumption. But again, nobody actually | seems to give a damn, so we continue to live in glass | houses. Kinda funny really.
The world's two premier medical journals, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, have over the years repeatedly published papers showing that surgical operating rooms are not nearly so free of pathogenic microorganisms as they are supposed to be or have been represented as being. Surgeons have greeted these revelations with yawns because during-procedure infection rates from these organisms are so minuscule. I suspect that something similar is going on here. When and if mainframe breaches (of the sort that are too frequent on PCs and workstations to be ignored) become commonplace, they will be addressed. Until then they will not be. Moreover, those who, Cassandra like--It is worth remembering that she was always right--warned of these dangers 'prematurely' will get scant credit for having done so. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _________________________________________________________________ Bing™ brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. Try it now. http://www.bing.com/search?q=restaurants&form=MLOGEN&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TXT_MLOGEN_Local_Local_Restaurants_1x1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
