Re: SSA Wants to Audit Our System (?)

Did you pay for the package on a per user basis?  Then they have the right 
to audit the system.  How they do it ...

Basically, SSA is not going to maliciously attack your system.  Just about 
every vendor out there has at least one program that uses adopted 
authority and is owned by QSECOFR.  What's the difference?

However if you feel that you are entitled to run their software regardless 
of how many users are on your system just because you modified a portion 
of it, or no longer put on updates, then you need to contact your lawyers. 
 And after you shovel out a bunch of money to your lawyers and lose the 
case, then you can load the software and continue on with the audit.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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In our case, we believe that we paid for exactly those rights, and I
understand we have the paperwork to prove it.

But now I have a more general question: my boss says what they want to do
is have us load some of their software on our system, using QSECOFR
authority. It's then supposed to run for six weeks, collecting information
in data files, which they will collect at the end.

He seems to think we'd be crazy to let anyone do that, for any reason,
because of security and data integrity issues. Is this standard procedure?
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I'm just curious. . .


Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Unless you paid for rights to continue modifying/using their code, you're
>in
>trouble.


Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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