[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/19/2019 12:15 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 6/19/2019 8:28 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2019-06-18, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> If you try look at how application servers access database servers,
>>> then you will find that unencrypted is still very common.
>>>
>>
>> Are you sure ?
>>
>> What is the point of going to the effort of encrypting data at rest if
>> you are then going to let it fly around unencrypted within a machine
>> room's network ?
>>
>> Why do you trust the machine room network more than the rest of the
>> organisation's network ?
>>
>> IOW, is trusting the machine room's network more than the rest of the
>> network giving people a sense of false security ? One single compromise
>> of a machine on that network and _everything_ on that network is
>> potentially compromised.
> 
> Your worship of security just may not be universally practiced?  Don't 
> blame me, I think it's important.  But I know there are those who may 
> not feel so strongly.

Almost everybody considers security very important.

But there are different approaches to security.

Arne