Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: ki4pv!tanner@bikini.cis.ufl.edu (Dr. T. Andrews) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: US Sprint Code-abuse Policies & Systems Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 89 11:11:23 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Evildrome Boozarama Lines: 14 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 250, message 5 of 10 There are two primary classes of security violation: (a) unauthorized use of resources (b) denial of service It sounds like US Sprint doesn't want to wait for electronic burglars to arrange for (b); their own "security" system will assure it instead! For their sake, I am glad that their customers are so tolerant. It surely saves the president much unhappy mail saying "cancel account account of lousy parody of service." -- ...!bikini.cis.ufl.edu!ki4pv!tanner ...!bpa!cdin-1!ki4pv!tanner or... {allegra attctc gatech!uflorida uunet!cdin-1}!ki4pv!tanner