RE: Origins of Security Problems

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At 10:11 PM -0700 6/18/04, Alun Jones wrote:

> If there is not sufficient security in the protocol, and DECnet may have
> enough security, there is certainly not sufficient security in assuming 
that
> your fellow network citizens are clever and kind.

There is nothing to _prevent_ an untrained administrator from granting
that privilege to all users (I have seen worse), but there is a damping
effect provided by the fact that behavior _defaults_ to constraining
those users.