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>... is that the iSeries is a business computer and iSeries programmers >are business programmers, and those who attach via client access are >business users. The idea of writing an iSeries program that would >attack an end user's PC is ludicrous. I could think of many reasons to attack a pc, in fact a compromised pc with a keyboard logger, phoning home could give someone a valid user id/pwd to any system that pc accesses. Joe (and others) - S3X & 400 programmers for years have been caught writing programs to capture info for their own purposes. I've seen a few walked to the door. Just like we keep saying Menu Security is no security, guessing the ethics of each employee is no security. Read: Kevin Mitnick's book The Art of Deception. Read: Know Your Enemy (The Honeynet Project). There is a market out there, or power to be gained for the inside info of any company, big or small, and we have a world full of entrepreneurs, thrillseekers, and just very curious people. jim
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