Re: No single case of hacking...

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>

> No, not everyone has done so.  Those who have not, yet have chosen to make
> their systems accessible through the Internet, are silly people.

some people are not silly just ignorant or can't afford a consultant to
set things up correctly. They hear that the AS/400 is invulnerable, so
think: "well, good, I don't need to worry then".

>Then
> again, most hacking is done from the inside, as Leif suggests, so anybody
> who has enabled ODBC access to their AS/400 is just as silly.  Finally, as
> has been shown to me, any programmer worth his salt can access any object
on
> the machine at any time.  All the more reason to severely limit the access
> to your machine.  >
> Security is a mindset, not just an application of a few
> patches.
>

amen to that.



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