RE: Real-World Ethical Questions

Subject: RE: Real-World Ethical Questions
From: MList -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:21:16 -0400


Robert Plamondon [mailto:robert -at- plamondon -dot- com] opined:

> In the first case, management is assuming that financial
> institutions are
> ignorant of the security weaknesses in Internet Explorer, and
> in general
> won't discover security flaws on their own. This is extremely
> naive -- it's
> equivalent to thinking that you can hide a heart murmur from
> your doctor by
> failing to mention it.

My heart murmur was discovered by a military doctor, during
my early twenties, having eluded a couple of family doctors
and a doctor doing the screening for RCMP admissions, up
to that time.

Subsequent to that, it has never re-appeared.

Apparently, they are easy to hide or easy to imagine.

/kevin

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