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Re: putting an alias in my tnsnames for a change to report server

From: Richard Foote <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:13:44 +1000
Message-ID: <pNzY8.35559$Hj3.107437@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>


Hi Ed,

I split a nail yesterday while I was the gardening. I had absolutely no idea the consequences could be so dire !!

Regards :)

Richard

"Ed Stevens" <spamdump_at_nospam.noway.nohow> wrote in message news:3d32bfe7.2205881_at_ausnews.austin.ibm.com...
> On 13 Jul 2002 16:31:00 -0700, rgaffuri_at_cox.net (Ryan Gaffuri) wrote:
>
> <snippage of message history>
>
> >There's nothing on this this server that would be of use to anyone. It
> >was supposed to have been set up as simply being available in the
> >building or so I
> >was told.
> >
> I wouldn't be so sure about that, either. Intelligence doesn't usually
come
> from snatching "the big plan" but from taking a lot of little pieces that,
by
> themselves, seem trivial and meaningless. And in the case of a server,
even
> though there is no data on it of any value whatsoever, if security is this
lax,
> it seems reasonable that the exposed server could be used as a bridge to
> somewhere else.
>
> On the first point, let me bore you with an example. Back in the '70's I
was a
> trumpet player in an Army Band. (Still am, but in the National Guard
now). Our
> manning chart was considered classified information. I thought it was
rather
> anal. Of what possible value could it be to someone to know that a
certain Army
> band was authorized one oboe player vs. two. Well, if you gather from
one
> source how Army bands are structured, then from another source you find
out how
> many oboe players a particular band is authorized, then you know what kind
of
> band you're looking at. Now, since you previously learned how Army bands
are
> structured, since you found out what size THIS band is, you know what size
> command (post, division, corps, army, theater) it is assigned to. Then,
if from
> another source you find out that that band is deploying to Outer
Sloboviea, then
> it is easy to figure out what size buildup/operation is being planned for
Outer
> Sloboviea.
>
> For want of a nail, a shoe was lost.
> For want of a shoe, a horse was lost.
> For want of a horse, a battle was lost.
> For want of a battle, a war was lost.
> For want of a war, a kingdom was lost.
> And all for the want of a nail.
> --
> Ed Stevens
> (Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer.)
Received on Mon Jul 15 2002 - 08:13:44 CDT

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