Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!rschmidt From: rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Warning for ProComm Users Summary: Enough Already!! Keywords: SECURITY, PUBLIC EMBARRASSMENT Message-ID: <1991Apr19.030846.24013@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 03:08:46 GMT References: <1991Apr11.122944.5139@bilver.uucp> <1991Apr12.002356.24990@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1991Apr16.010424.22198@brainiac.mn.org> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 31 In article <1991Apr16.010424.22198@brainiac.mn.org> jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock) writes: >In article <1991Apr12.002356.24990@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Conrad.Bullock@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Conrad Bullock) writes: >> >>In article <1991Apr11.122944.5139@bilver.uucp>, dandrews@bilver.uucp >>(Dave Andrews) writes: >>|> In article >>|> cmcdonal@wsmr-emh03.army.mil (Chris McDonald ASQNC-TWS-R-SO) writes: This is ridiculous! Chris McDonald by now must be regretting that he/she posted such a dumb note. 1. For security purposes, any of you folks in the DoD who are reading this should remember the series that has ensued as a lesson. Any time you discover what may be a security problem, don't advertise your problem to the world (note that even Timo Salmi of Finland responded at one point.) Call your security people, and let them take care of it. If you feel you *must* send out something or bust, then compose a memo for local consumption, and then eat it and call your security people! 2. Why continue speculating on this problem? Let's drop this whole thing and move back to the business for which this group was formed: squandering government money! :-) Roy Schmidt, Capt, USAF (Retired) Former security-obsessed officer -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Schmidt | #include Indiana University | /* They are _my_ thoughts, and you can't Graduate School of Business | have them, so there! */