RE: URGENT !! PTFs to fix another integrity problem

["Eyers, Daniel" <daniel.eyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO, providing information is what we (as IS professionals) do.  If there's
a hack out there that has an impact to our businesses, we should have access
to that information in order to combat it.  Some of the most clever hacks
ever were reduced in significance because the knowledge of the hack was
spread, and everyone knew how to protect against it.  Imagine where we would
be today if the discoverer of germs had said, "This is 'too much
information' for the masses.  We'll just tell them to wash their hands
without telling them why."  

By holding back information, one causes others to wonder who decides whether
it *is* "too much information" or if there are hidden agendas.  Johnson felt
the rising body count in Vietnam was "too much information,"  Stalin felt
that knowledge of dissidents in the fledging Soviet Union was "too much
information," and the government of China rules by limiting the flow of
information because it wants to "protect" it's citizenry from "too much
information."

Science is about exchanging information and building on someone else's work.
It's about verifying someone else's work to prove it's validity. The
Internet has opened great opportunity as a facilitator of science and human
endeavors by providing a effective, efficent platform for discourse and
exchange. *That* is the real computer revolution.

Withholding pertinant information for fear of giving "too much information"
is not only arrogant, it is counterproductive to the purpose of the
Internet.  It demonstrates a lack of understanding of basic scientific
method and belies an attitude that is not conducive to problem solving.

Just my thoughts...

dan




>>OTOH, I agree that there should not be too much information given.  IMO,
the
>>people who have posted all the details about how to use DMPSYSOBJ to see
the
>>cleartext passwords should not have done so.  That's why to all the people
>>who have emailed privately for the details, I'm saying "Sorry, you won't
get
>>them from me."


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