[Orca-users] Re: Oracle Database

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Sat Oct 20 00:55:31 PDT 2001


"Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> Blair,
> 
>     I also forgot to mention that these transfer can happen securely as
> the protocols suggests.
> 
>     You would find it very hard to hack into those protocols that are
> secured so that is not a problem.
>      Besides if you are showing these systems publicily you letting the
> hacker know how much of a
>      load you having on your systems which can be an advantage to some
> hackers knowing when
>      to strike. So I wouldn't be putting such information on critical
> web servers out for public hanging.
>      I hope those mutli-servers are behind a good redundant firewalls
> that you have put up cause other
>      wise your shooting yourself in the foot or these servers don't mean
> that much to keep up.
> 

Agreed.

Blair

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