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  • Subject: Re: ALL OBJect- Hey what do you think Wayne O Evans? MR. Security I know ...
  • From: John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:41:49 +0200
  • Organization: The PowerTech Group

Ahem....

John Earl wrote:

> MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> >
> > A developer who is given full access to our corporate systems can also play
> > the role of an embezzler ... enter a dummy vendor ... enter dummy debts ...
> > set up the system to send off payments to the dummy vendor (developer secret
> > account).
>
> Security is great for preventing malicious attacks, but the more realistic 
>(and
> frequent) use of security is that it often prevents regular folks from making
> disasterous mistakes.
>

Fat fingered typing strickes again....  this should read

>
> You can accidently corrupt the production inventory file if you don't have 
>direct
> write authority to it.
>

You _can't_ accidently corrupt the production inventory file if you don't have 
direct

write authority to it.


jte



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