RE: Toronto Says Licence-Tampering on City Computer Syst ems is 'Impossible '

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 give the hackers a week or two, and all the licenses will be deleted, just
to prove that it's not "impossible"....

   Why do people make such claims as "unhackable" or "impossible to break
into our system"....  Unless they WANT black hats to start breaking in.... 


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:25 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Toronto Says Licence-Tampering on City Computer Systems is
'Impossible '

I generally chuckle when I hear anyone claim that this or
that is impossible -- it flies in the face of common sense
and reasonable judegment. :-)

Via The Globe and Mail.

[snip]

A disgraced top official's renewed allegations of tampering with city
tow-truck licences were rejected yesterday by Toronto Mayor David Miller.

"That's not possible," he told reporters, responding to former municipal
licensing and standards executive director Pamela Coburn's assertion, made
in some news outlets yesterday, that criminal records possibly were deleted
from city files to make it easier for suspected biker gang members to get
tow-truck licences.

"That's just simply not possible with our computer system," the mayor said.

However, Mr. Miller now says a more frequent check of licence holders for
criminal records, more often than the current standard of every four years,
is "under review."

[snip]

More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060425.gtlicence25/BNSt
ory/Technology/

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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