Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!comm.wang.com!lws From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: UNIX and security Message-ID: <1990Dec26.223213.2988@comm.wang.com> Date: 26 Dec 90 22:32:13 GMT References: <168@raysnec.UUCP> <1990Dec7.215727.23696@fiver> Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms. Lines: 23 palowoda@fiver (Bob Palowoda) writes: >From article <168@raysnec.UUCP>, by shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake): >> Yes, many people do NOT want a higher level of security than is >> already provided, since security costs in both human and system resources >> without obvious benefit - at least, not until you need it! > I was under the impression that (at least with SCO's UNIX) you have >to buy C2. Or am I wrong here. If this is the case how can one measure >the cost benefit? How much does Secureware addin cost in other versions? >How do you know how much it costs? Ray wasn't speaking of dollars, Bob. He was speaking of the more nebulous "lost time" and "wasted CPU cycles". I don't know how you establish exactly what values those have in order to measure the cost benefit, I guess you'll have to ask Southwestern Bell that. But you don't have to know exactly what the dollar cost is to know that the human cost (my time, yours, etc) is too much. -- Lyle Wang lws@capybara.comm.wang.com 508 967 2322 Lowell, MA, USA Source code: the _ultimate_ documentation.