[plug] Computer insecurity
Bret Busby
bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au
Wed Aug 8 13:46:33 WST 2001
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Christian wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:05:21PM +0800, Simon Scott wrote:
> > My god....
> >
> > ....what a sentence!
>
> <snipped>
>
> I liked this paragraph from the original email:
>
> It is the stupidity of using as an account name, that needs to be known
> to other users within a system, the password of the person, on other
> systems within the same institution, with the user's name being the user
> name on the other systems within the institution with both the person's
> name and identifying number, needing to be known by other user's in the
> institution, by virtue of the systems in use. Also, there is the
> problem, of requiring other users within the institution, to know the
> person's identifying number, when that identifying number is used to
> index confidential information displayed within the institution, where
> the secrecy of the person's identifying number, is the only protection
> of the confidential information.
>
> --
> DSA 0x0EC1D28C: BBCB 0D79 4EBB 078A A066 7267 8BED E9D6 0EC1 D28C
What is wrong, Christian?
Do you think that I should have merged the sentences in the paragraph, so that
the paragraph would have been only one sentence? Is that more approriate, for
your level of study?
:)
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