Pretty poetic... The CF-Talk group tends to be the folks in the
ditches.. A few of us own our own thing and do well, but no one I know
of has 10k employees and all that jazz...
It seems pretty irresponsible to have issues like this worm... I know
from having maintained environments that needed to support 100
difficult users with all of their different needs that securing an
environment takes a strategy no matter what the platform...
Saying you are too big or the problem is too complex just can't be
allowed to cut it... Liability in my opinion is and has been the
largest issue businesses face... Say we adopt the same big argument to
hospitals.. Next thing you know your employee knows about those stress
meds you have been taking... Thus HIPAA was created to neutralize the
irresponsible...
Similiarly, there should be a standards measure that anyone with a
public facing resource should clearly be able to say they have made the
best and most calculated base to ensure the reliability and security
thereof
If such were upheld/created, fending off lawsuits and government
regulation as well as lost business would be more honest and easy...
No one would listen if Boeing airplanes started falling out of the sky
and the men on the line said oh we produce tons of them... No one
would listen if their financial data were disclosed and they were
defrauded...
Protecting your enviroment should be a portion of identifiable time you
spend or someone in your organization spends in an ongoing manner... If
you don't have the luxury you will when something fatal happens... And
remember to yell out the names of your bosses who told you to overlook
it... Overlook it like the factory worker allowing EPA unapproved
liquids and gases to sneak out of the plant when told to...
-paris
Paris Lundis
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-Original Message-
From: S. Isaac Dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:51:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Microsoft Bashing - Was: RE:SQL Worm
This needs to go off to some other place.
However, I wonder why people say this.
It's VERY easy to arm chair quarterback.
But not so easy to run a multi-billion
dollar corporation with hundreds of
thousands of employees, hundreds of
products and being in virtually every
part of the world.
This is the epitome of arm-chair quarterbacking.
What did our financials look like for last year?
... blah blah...
What are people buying?
... blah blah...
Take the money we made last year and make more of that stuff.
Yes Sir.
But the presidents and executives and trustees of a multinational
conglomerate I think ultimately have little ability to control the
machine
-- they can only make decisions in such broad strokes as to
ultimately end
up being nearly superfluous themselves. Take the CEO of any given
multinational corp. away and someone else steps in and usually makes
roughly
the same decisions. Sure, there are semantic changes -- one guy's
more
popular with trustees a, b and c, and the other guy is more popular
with
trustees x, y and z, but that doesn't usually dramatically change his
ability to influence the board, etc... Of course, fraud and some
other less
than desireable actions can dramatically change an individual's
ability to
influence a company, re: Enron MCI. But then these things likely
affect
the quality of their product very little and I doubt many individuals
earning well over 6 figures really care in particular about the
quality of
their company's product anyway. At 6 figures it would be very
difficult to
squander enough money to significantly affect your standard of
living.
At any rate.. Let's take this somewhere else..
It's not tech oriented around CF.
Arm chair quarterbacking are we?
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