This is true in an ideal world, however: - customers are "stupid" (not that these are supid people, but they may be considered as stupid customers, in the sense that you can sell them poducts using an irrational approach). - companies are not trying to maximize their situation, but only to make it better (there's a difference here) - there is no effective way to judge people. you can only ask'em questions, hear'em talking, ... you can't get inside their brain. so, the tree components (customer, company, employee) of the system can hrdly follow any rational model. Knowing that, you can hardly expect that any of these components will follow a rational process.... you can hire a "hacker" if you "feel" it. It's the same as the decision you take when you see a girl/boy in a party. you might get excited and think she/he should be in your bed that night. Discovering later that she/he "was not the one" is an event that you could hardly predict.... After all, you can only get "performance" if you abandon "robustness". If there is no risk, there is no reason to get paid... mouss At 11:46 23/08/00 -0400, Meritt, Jim wrote: >IF (a big "if"): >1. You can trust them with your entire being (say, you AREN'T "secure" and >they find out exactly how and where you are most vulnerable) >2. They are as good as you think. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
