Re: Is Outsourcing the Next Terror Target?

2005-12-30 Thread Howard Brazee
On 29 Dec 2005 21:32:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SArnett) wrote: The computer corollary to Murphy's law states that if architects built buildings the way that programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization... That's an old, amusing corollary. But in

Re: Is Outsourcing the Next Terror Target?

2005-12-29 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Phil Payne wrote: [snip] I think it vanishingly unlikely that any commercial operation - especially in outsourcing, where the gross margins are already very low - would be able to afford the kind of security measures needed to guarantee invulnerability from the kind of fanatics who could

Re: Is Outsourcing the Next Terror Target?

2005-12-29 Thread Stephen Mednick
Of Edward E. Jaffe Sent: Friday, 30 December 2005 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is Outsourcing the Next Terror Target? Phil Payne wrote: [snip] I think it vanishingly unlikely that any commercial operation - especially in outsourcing, where the gross margins

Re: Is Outsourcing the Next Terror Target?

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Arnett
Can anyone guarantee invulnerability? I used to work at ACS in Dallas and the security there was better than in most of the data centers that they were outsourcing. Outsourcers do not work on very low profit margins, they operate on economies of scale. They can run multiple companies