Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: UNIX and security Message-ID: <1990Dec29.044954.2167@NCoast.ORG> Date: 29 Dec 90 04:49:54 GMT References: <1990Dec26.223213.2988@comm.wang.com> <1990Dec27.051728.12035@fiver> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386 Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast) Lines: 20 As quoted from <1990Dec27.051728.12035@fiver> by palowoda@fiver (Bob Palowoda): +--------------- | > 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. | | It's like selling insurance. +--------------- Insurance policies don't jump out and prevent you from walking near construction sites on the grounds that someone might drop something from the top of the building under construction and it might hit you. SCO "UNIX" (or, more precisely, SecureWare) does. Why is this a problem? What happens when I *work* at the construction site? ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY