Dang.. did I use Always again and left out the 1 or 2 use cases? <VBG>
Then lock them up in data sets only the trusted can use.... and certainly putting them in linklst would be something to be avoided. Or on sandbox systems that if co-opted would not adversely affect your business. Rob Schramm On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]>wrote: > On 4/22/2011 4:17 PM, Rob Schramm wrote: > >> Super Secret (aka Security Through Obscurity) is always a bad idea. >> Security and integrity are difficult enough when balanced against >> allowing >> progress to occur. Adding in ridiculously risky back doors into your >> system >> is a recipe for disaster. >> > > I take issue with "always", as a special SVC on a sandbox system may save > significant time debugging and writing new software, while presenting > minimal exposure. > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, VT > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Rob Schramm Senior Systems Engineer w: 513.305.6224 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
