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From: obrennan@CC3.CC.UMR.EDU (obrennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Security problems
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Date: 27 Jun 90 20:32:41 GMT
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As an opinion:

   I appreciate receiving information about security problems with the
   Apollos. What I don't appreciate is having to obtain this type of
   information from a PUBLIC list that has many more users than just
   Apollo administrators. HP should be alerting customers when serious
   security problems exist!!! Unfortunately, I have not seen any alert
   bulletins to Apollo administrators. Since HP ALERT is not available
   others feel it necessary to post the information to this list, which
   I again dislike because it becomes a HACKER alert as well as an
   administrator alert. Also, what if a particular administrator is NOT
   on this list; we have just opened up a security problem (unknown to 
   the administrator) for that site. 

   If we have a concern, we should inform the other administrators as to
   Apollo Problem number to question the hotline about (I presume that
   they will allow customers to query a problem entry) or some other 
   means of the like.

   Again, thanks for the info, but lets post it such that only Apollo 
   administrators can obtain the details. 
   


Gerry O'Brennan
Computing Services
University of Missouri - Rolla
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