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- From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Subject: Re: Guest account at Center for Software Reuse
- In-Reply-To: hso6230@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil's message of 22 Jan 93 13:37:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <SRCTRAN.93Jan22122826@world.std.com>
- Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Organization: The World
- References: <1993Jan19.223357.24513@nosc.mil> <5815@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:28:26 GMT
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- >The Center for Software Reuse Operations (CSRO) Customer Assistance
- >Office (CAO) has disable the guest account due to security issues.
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- This pathetic excuse for shutting down an entire reuse operation reminds
- of the secrecy crap at the Software Engineering Institute. I was there
- a few years ago, went to the entrance, and asked to see if I could use
- the SEI library. The guard at the front desk informed me that no one could
- walk unescorted throughout the SEI building. I suppose like CSRO that some
- parts of the SEI building had classified stuff, but with all of the money
- they have to waste, in both cases, it is pure incompetency to have to
- completely restrict access to the entire facilities.
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- After all, I can get into my car, drive to Hanscom Air Force Base, and
- walk completely unescorted into the headquarters of the Electronic Systems
- Division, which funds all of these efforts, and which has more classified
- stuff onsite than either CSRO or SEI.
-
- In thes cases, control access is less for security and more for incompetence
- covering. That none of the DoD reuse efforts have managed to figure out
- or cared to use anonymous ftp and USENET to circulate Ada codes just shows
- the levels of incompetence attained (given that 1000s of times more C and
- C++ software is readily available over the Internet). As I have heard too
- often for middle level DoDer's, "all we have to do is spend our money.
- What's done with the money is irrelevant as long as it is legal".
-
- Greg Aharonian
- Source Translation & Optimization
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