On Air

[Steve Schear]

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>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:32:00 -0500
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>Question = Re: Dec 8, Revolution in a Box, Part 11
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>The number trotted out on your show of 100,000 penetrations, or
>attempted penetrations, of Pentagon computers as an indication of poor
>security is misleading.  If you had taken the time to dig behind these
>numbers you would have found that most all of these intrusions, or
>attempts, were against DoD computer systems connected to public networks
>(e.g., Web sites) containing no secret information and with minimal
>security provisions.
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>100,000 certainly sounds like a major problem.  Suggest you check you
>facts first, next time and scale your numbers appropriately.
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>Steve Schear
>CEO
>First ECache Corp.
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