Re: [Nolug] networking question

ALL of our AS/400 connections use VPN setups when users or other locations
connect to the networks or as/400s. Symantec VPN appliances are cheap
compared to costs of the AS/400s or how much it would cost a company to
recover from a hacker.

>From: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger)
>Reply-To: nolug@joeykelly.net
>To: nolug@joeykelly.net
>Subject: Re: [Nolug] networking question
>Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:37:52 -0400
>
>-ray <ray@ops.selu.edu> writes:
>
> > I'd personally like to know what business this is, that can afford
> > an AS400 but can't afford or be bothered with VPN/encrypted
> > sessions.
>
>Eh, try the DOI, as in "Department of the Interior". These are the
>people who manage the drilling rights in the Gulf (as in MMS) as well
>as Native American relations with the government.
>
>A couple of years ago the entire DOI (including MMS there in Elmwood)
>was taken off the net because of a case brought against it by some
>Native Americans.
>
>Seems that the DOI had an un-secured mainframe with lots of personal
>data from said Native Americans. The judge ordered all network
>connections severed until the problem was fixed.
>
>Mark.
>
>--
>A choice between one man and a shovel, or a dozen men with teaspoons
>is clear to me, and I'm sure it is clear to you also.
> -- Zimran Ahmed <http://www.winterspeak.com/>
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