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RE: Recent bugtraq postings

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Joe Pluta wrote:

But my favorite is the one that warns that if you install Client Access,
"malicious AS/400 applications can run programs on your PC."  Uh huh.
Malicious AS/400 programs.  Sorry, but iSeries programmers actually work
for a living.  We're unlikely to want to write applications that wipe
out the workstations of our end users.

That's right. All iSeries programmers are angels. Since we actually work for a living we would never do such a thing. Every programmer who knows RPG is by definition a saint.

Could a malicious program be written? Certainly. Could such a program cause harm? That is the point under investigation. If so, then there is a security flaw. But to say that the iSeries is secure because iSeries programmers are such good people that a malicious program would never be written is ridiculous.

btw - all the iSeries programmers I know *are* angels.

James Rich

It's not the software that's free; it's you.
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