Re: How to get an unix programmer started on web programming?

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Andrew,

You've obviously never worked with the (U.S.) Federal government or a large or medium sized company.

Yes I have. A quick check of my resume would confirm that. And yes I have experience working with government systems, mostly as a consumer. I don't know of many people who are actually impressed with government systems - do you???

These groups have all kinds of data on their system which could be ripe for hackers - social security numbers and other private information of personnel, for instance. If such data is hacked, it could lead to serious criminal and/or civil legal proceedings.

Understood. Again, there is a risk vs. benefits analysis that can be formed as well as opinions of the interpretations. Opinions will differ. For example, mine differs from yours.

Even non-personnel data such as market research, sales figures and other things can be expensive to the company if leaked.

And ANY system can be hacked. Some are more secure than others, but ANY system is vulnerable. But the more roadblocks you put in front of a hacker, the better chance you have of catching him BEFORE he gets into the system.

Agreed, no system is 100% secure. Hacking a system can cause damage. So then there's a trade off and a wide range of precautions that can be taken anywhere from 100% open to 100% closed. People formulate opinions on how important the data is and how much security is needed. You have your opinion and I have mine and IMHO what was presented was overkill (IOW severely limits the benefits and makes the system much harder to implement and provide timely data then is warranted by the perceived risk). You may be of a different opinion and that's fine.

You call it paranoia. My customers call it safety. And it isn't all that hard to implement.

A lot depends on the type of data and the security required. It seems it was just assumed that high security was a requirement. I'm not convinced that it is in this case.
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