In <17868922.1560312.1378814955966.JavaMail.root@vznit170182>, on
09/10/2013
at 07:09 AM, Russell Witt <res09...@verizon.net> said:
>Of course, it would still have been possible for the assembler
>programmer to move an exit into production that granted him special
>authority;
I've been in jobs where I was not permitted to remove such code.
Security requires management buyin.
As for trust, even if your sysprogs are honest they can make mistakes.
IMHO we'd all be better off if code and design reviews were more
common.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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