Re: Guest account at Center for Software Reuse

[agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!srctran@ucbvax.Berkeley .EDU (Gregory Aharonian)]

>The Center for Software Reuse Operations (CSRO) Customer Assistance
>Office (CAO) has disable the guest account due to security issues.

This pathetic excuse for shutting down an entire reuse operation reminds
of the secrecy crap at the Software Engineering Institute.  I was there
a few years ago, went to the entrance, and asked to see if I could use
the SEI library.  The guard at the front desk informed me that no one could
walk unescorted throughout the SEI building.  I suppose like CSRO that some
parts of the SEI building had classified stuff, but with all of the money
they have to waste, in both cases, it is pure incompetency to have to
completely restrict access to the entire facilities.

After all, I can get into my car, drive to Hanscom Air Force Base, and
walk completely unescorted into the headquarters of the Electronic Systems
Division, which funds all of these efforts, and which has more classified
stuff onsite than either CSRO or SEI.

In thes cases, control access is less for security and more for incompetence
covering.  That none of the DoD reuse efforts have managed to figure out
or cared to use anonymous ftp and USENET to circulate Ada codes just shows
the levels of incompetence attained (given that 1000s of times more C and
C++ software is readily available over the Internet).  As I have heard too
often for middle level DoDer's, "all we have to do is spend our money.
What's done with the money is irrelevant as long as it is legal".

Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization

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Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimiztion
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