[plug] Computer insecurity

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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.  
> 
> 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?

I think you probably needed to add a few commas here and there to make it
a bit easier to read.

-Greg