[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Dave Froble]

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.
>
> Simon.
>

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.

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